ABUNDANCE, by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson In 1833, John Adolphus Etzler, a German engineer who immigrated to Pittsburgh, announced that earthly paradise was suddenly in...
CHANGING MY MIND, by Julian Barnes In an essay from his collection “The Dyer’s Hand,” W.H. Auden describes his personal Eden: an “absolute monarchy, elected for...
SUNRISE ON THE REAPING, by Suzanne Collins It has been 17 years since the first book in Suzanne Collins’s “The Hunger Games” series was published. In...
Last year, Everett published “James,” his reimagining of the American classic “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” told through the voice of Mark Twain’s enslaved Black character...
HUNCHBACK, by Saou Ichikawa; translated by Polly Barton Shaka Izawa, the narrator of the Japanese author Saou Ichikawa’s slim and formidable debut novel, “Hunchback,” writes porn...
FIRSTBORN: A Memoir, by Lauren Christensen There are two fierce, fragile fighters in “Firstborn,” Lauren Christensen’s touching memoir about the life and death of her tiny...
STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE, by Kristen Arnett Some people don’t like clowns. I happen to have married one. My husband was a birthday...
The Institute of Black Imagination, in the Oculus at the World Trade Center PATH station, is an experiment in cultural alchemy. It turns a retail store...
Randall K. Wilson, the author of “A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World’s First National Park,” has been named the winner of the...
FUNNY BECAUSE IT’S TRUE: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire, by Christine Wenc When I told a very funny editor that a new book...
