Mike Sager

By Charles McNair at 4:30 PM on October 16, 2008

Mike Sager, writer-at-large for Esquire, and formerly a...  read more

Roy Blount Jr.

By Jack Pendarvis at 12:57 PM on October 15, 2008

Roy Blount Jr.’s Alphabet Juice—a relatively short encyclopedic...  read more

Ron Rash

By Daniel E. Wickett at 3:38 PM on October 13, 2008

Ron Rash is at the top of his game with Serena...  read more

Susan Cheever

By Hollis Gillespie at 3:15 PM on October 9, 2008

Some might say addiction is a disease of perception. For example...  read more

Art Spiegelman

By Henry Freedland at 2:30 PM on October 8, 2008

Twenty years before the book-length Maus won a Pulitzer, Art Spiegelman...  read more

Sarah Vowell

By Cari Gervin at 11:00 AM on October 7, 2008

The time would seem right for a hipster micro-history of...  read more

Cormac McCarthy

By Tom Franklin at 11:08 AM on October 3, 2008

Until 1992, with the publication of the National Book Award-winning...  read more

Natsuo Kirino (Trans. Philip Gabriel)

By Christine Thomas at 5:30 PM on September 25, 2008

Entering Kirino’s dark fictional worlds demands total submission to her...  read more

Yan Lianke (Trans. Julia Lovell)

By Charles McNair at 3:35 PM on September 24, 2008

What could be a bigger turn-on...  read more

Mark LeVine

By Emily L. Hauser at 2:10 PM on September 22, 2008

It’s inconvenient but true that people, societies and religious systems...  read more

Paulo Coelho

By Tiago Moura at 1:34 PM on September 19, 2008

The author of renowned book The Alchemist explores magic this time out through...  read more

Nikolai Grozni

By Tim Black at 4:29 PM on September 17, 2008

“But this is India...Things happen again and again for..."  read more

Thomas Quasthoff

By Dr. James W. Flannery at 4:47 PM on September 16, 2008

German-born bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff is one of the most versatile singers of our time...  read more

Chuck Klosterman

By Austin L. Ray at 8:00 AM on September 16, 2008

Pop-culture addict Chuck Klosterman has polarized readers...  read more

Colin Cotterill

By David Langness at 4:04 PM on September 11, 2008

If I have to read one more blood-drenched novel...  read more

Greg Atwan & Evan Lushing

By Michelle Quint at 12:45 PM on September 3, 2008

Is writing about Facebook a bit like dancing about...  read more

Jack Pendarvis

By Ben Greenman at 11:16 AM on August 29, 2008

Moby-Dick has a white whale. Gravity’s Rainbow has outsized sexual shenanigans...  read more

Stefan Fatsis

By Dan Oko at 2:08 PM on August 27, 2008

Wall Street Journal sportswriter and NPR commentator Stefan Fatsis sets out to...  read more

Paul Auster

By Charles McNair at 1:21 PM on August 22, 2008

August Brill is an aging book reviewer. He lives in a haunted house...  read more

Amanda Petrusich

By Steve Weinberg at 1:43 PM on August 21, 2008

Amanda Petrusich has been suffering from genre meld...  read more