Novelist Louise Erdrich draws from her own family history for The Night Watchman
…academic study of Chippewa economics to support the legal fight in a completely different way. White locals who have come to understand why the bill would devastate their community also…
Lorraine López sends up the foibles of arts faculty in Postcards from the Gerund State
…is pulled in numerous conflicting directions by her personal life, all of which threaten to lead her away from decades of careful discipline toward her work. Poetry professor Devorah is…
A brother and sister wrestle with the past in Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House
…yet Danny and Maeve thrive, preternaturally close, nurtured by a loyal housekeeper and cook and the occasional bone of affection tossed out by their aloof father, Cyril. Their idyll is…
In Silas House’s Southernmost, a pastor grapples with the evolution of his beliefs
…belief and he might be able to figure all that out someday, but not yet.” Asher arrives in Key West at the novel’s halfway point. Here, Southernmost shifts permanently from…
Jeff Kinney talks with Chapter 16 about his megahit series of children’s books that began with Diary of a Wimpy Kid
…yourself a favor: go with the cartoon. Millions of American children can’t be wrong. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth, the fifth book in Jeff Kinney’s massively successful…
