Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions for You alternates between the #MeToo present and a 1990s mystery
Bodie Kane, the narrator of Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions for You, knows firsthand that media and audiences have insatiable appetites for stories about the deaths of attractive women….
Marjorie Garber studies Shakespeare’s influence on the Bloomsbury group of writers
Members of the Bloomsbury group gained notoriety and, for some, lasting fame as novelists, biographers, critics, artists, dramatists, and economists. As diverse as their achievements were, a single lodestar guided…
In Come and Get It, Kiley Reid’s college characters tackle life’s big questions
The title of Kiley Reid’s new novel, Come and Get It, sounds like a slogan for a college’s marketing campaign. One imagines a video montage of students at the University…
Jonathan Metzl wants to reframe the gun debate
For years Jonathan Metzl and other public health professionals have been on the losing side of America’s gun debate. Despite marshalling mountains of evidence linking permissive gun laws to increased…
In Eric Schlich’s new novel, a preacher’s son comes clean about his near-death experience
Growing up is hard enough without the added pressure of being God’s prophet. The young hero of Eric Schlich’s new novel, Eli Harpo’s Adventure to the Afterlife, wishes he had…
Claire Keegan’s stories chart the good and bad of romantic relationships
Claire Keegan’s new story collection, So Late in the Day, has a misleading subtitle. “Stories of women and men” sounds charming, potentially romantic; in reality, these tales make a convincing…
