Lorraine Adams’s The Room and The Chair is a fantastic, rewarding book which offers that rarest of luxuries and treats: you, as a reader, are treated with respect, and are assumed (demanded, really, if yr gonna hang on to the narrative’s wild-ride...

When I heard last year that Dave Grohl had teamed up for a project with Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme and Led Zep’s John Paul Jones, I was skeptical. I’m not a big fan of supergroups—that is, groups composed of members of already...

Richard Powers in an interview somewhere talked about switching to an English major from a science major (I think it was physics), and the reason he made the switch is because English allowed him a bigger-picture view of things. He said something along...

I’ve literally been waiting years to read Jennifer Boyden’s The Mouths of Grazing Things. I mean it: years. It’s been awhile since I’ve had my ear real real close to literary magazines, since I could open issues of Cimarron and Ploughshares and...

I’ve rhapsodized about John D’Agata already, but I’d like to do so now with specificity: his new book, About a Mountain, is in several ways great even if, yes, it may be frustrating for its conflation of certain factual events (Brock’s Sunday NYTimes...