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...
Nadler then introduces us to Sonja’s mother, Fania, who immigrated to Montreal after the war and works as a masseuse. “If I press just slightly in...
HOT AIR, by Marcy Dermansky Marcy Dermansky’s new novel, “Hot Air,” begins with a hot-air balloon falling out of the sky and into a suburban swimming...
THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER, by Stephen Graham Jones Stephen Graham Jones’s new novel would give Gen. Philip Sheridan fits. The Civil War officer is often cited...
SAVING FIVE: A Memoir of Hope, by Amanda Nguyen There is a phrase that recurs at key points throughout Amanda Nguyen’s powerful memoir of activism and...
What is Panem? Panem is a fictionalized, future version of the United States. People in the country’s 12 districts, which loosely correspond to regions of the...
On Dec. 10, Michael Connelly stood on the patio behind his house in the Hollywood Hills and gazed down at a generous slice of the city...
HYPOCHONDRIA, by Will Rees As a cultural attitude, “ignorance is bliss” has sort of fallen out of favor. Much more de rigueur: “Do the work,” “the...
Prickly, eccentric, endlessly complex — the Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector (1920-77) has remained a bundle of contradictions years after her death. Lispector was idolized for her...
RED SCARE: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, by Clay Risen When the end came for Joe McCarthy, it was Edward R. Murrow who...
