he trial of the governor for racketeering, fraud, and bribery, was conducted in a New Orleans courtroom by a crowd of drawling white-haired gents,” Nancy Lemann writes in her lyrical, electrifying, and oddly moving narrative-nonfiction-cum-memoir-in-fr…
Robinson used Red Mars to show future humans exploiting the environment as well as each other.
hile fans are drawn to a book or film because of the people who created it, a work of art also attracts its audience through other means, including superficial ones like its title. But even once a reader or viewer has been drawn in, the job of the titl…
s it actually possible to fly too close to the sun? Like, we know air gets colder at higher altitudes—picture ice crystals forming on a plane window. Picture snowcapped mountain peaks. If you want to take the conceit to impossible extremes, it’s colder…
ax Delsohn’s debut short story collection is hilarious. You’re allowed to laugh. It is also masterfully written, deeply felt, and at times painfully sad. Crawl is a sweeping pointillistic landscape of Seattle in the 2010s and a rousing toast to trans m…
nless your entire experience of literature came from an Intro to Creative Writing course taught by a football coach, you probably know by now that dream sequences in fiction are fine, totally normal, and not verboten. But just in case you don’t believe…
