The Tender Underbelly of Soldiers: Phil Klay’s Lives During Wartime
Klay’s nearly universally acclaimed collection — about our experiences of warfare, on the ground and on the home front — though promising, is deeply...
Klay’s nearly universally acclaimed collection — about our experiences of warfare, on the ground and on the home front — though promising, is deeply...
In stitching together a wholly imagined but realistically nightmarish situation, Ball toys with our desire to know what maybe can't be known…
In Lore Segal’s Half the Kingdom, the end of days is here…
Reality TV ab-idol in a madcap novel.
Reality Strikes: Nathan Deuel on MARK HASKELL SMITH's Raw Down and Out in the Digital South: Robert Rea on SCOTT McCLANAHAN's Hill William ...
It's the season of the expatriate.
There’s enough sparkling, frightening imagination in each piece of this collection to make us fear Corin might know something we don’t.
What’s your karaoke song? Rob Sheffield, one of the best music writers around, on love and ritual.
Following one sprawling family over four days of searing temperatures in 1976 London, Instructions for a Heatwave – O'Farrell's sixth novel – is...
Triptych image: Antonio Adriano Puleo, "Untitled (47c)" 2013NOBODY DIED. But Beirut is engulfed in flames, cars are mangled, glass is under foot...
IN THE EARLY 2000s, an otherwise unremarkable student named Ken Ilgunas was half-heartedly working as a Home Depot clerk and attending class in...
I WAS A NIHILIST," writes Aleksandar Hemon, "and lived with my parents. I even started thinking up an Anthology of Irrelevant Poetry, sensing that it...