I have been a terrible book reviewer, in both ways that can be taken. I meant well, oh I did. I even have a cadre of shit-lit lined up, […]

When I looked at the gathering again, almost all of the heads were turned toward me. Nearly two hundred pairs of eyes stared at me. The band stopped playing suddenly. […]

Did you know there were once two Americas? One is the United States of America we know today, but the other was an equally legally valid “Confederate States of America,” […]

In the last two years, the literary world was stunned by two unexpected—indeed, unasked for—sequels to literary classics. The first, 2015’s “Go Set a Watchman,” set off a firestorm of […]