A South Dakota town caught in the spotlight of a tragedy is revealed through a chorus of American voices that call to mind William Faulkner's Mississipians. Read more...

Down and out in Portland and San Francisco. Read more...

That Andrew Motion's stately work has been slow to arrive on this side of the pond is a sad reminder of how much fine poetry Americans routinely miss... Read more...

Americans have often glorified the "First Encounter" of colonizing Europeans with indigenous people. Read more...

At the conceptual edge of astrophysics, two titans of the field battle over the shape of the universe. Read more...

On her fourth record, the popular vocalist and songwriter reveals some sharp edges. Read more...

A former IRA hit man is sent on a final mission -- by the shades of his victims. Read more...

A collection of short stories from the celebrated master of the legal thriller offer a take on Faulkner's imagined Mississippi. Read more...

Three and a half decades of a pathbreaking critic's work on film from Fuller to Fassbinder. Read more...

At the end of the '60s, hedonism and terror collided with each other. Read more...

Why did the Berlin Wall fall precisely twenty years ago this month? Or is that even the right question? Read more...

A young woman's predilection for untruth hides an even more unsettling secret. Read more...

No matter the book or the artwork, Matteo Pericoli always celebrates unique points of view only he could provide, be it the undulating perimeter of Manhattan Island from its rivers; one of his children’s book characters; or a 397-foot, block-plus-long mural featuring architectural highlights from 70 cities from around the globe for John F. Kennedy International Airport. Read more...

In Francophone countries, Nicolas Bouvier (1929–98) has the reputation of Bruce Chatwin: stylist extraordinaire and philosopher of travel. Read more...

From the author of City of Saints and Madmen, a detective story set in a shadowy city ruled by fungal invaders. Read more...

A harrowing look at the conditions and consequences of the industrialized world's insatiable demand for oil. Read more...

Will Cullen Hart returns to the sonic playground of Circulatory System, and to the balancing act between experiment and indulgence. Read more...

How a seven-foot skeleton found its way from Monticello to a French naturalist's collection -- and what it told Europe about America. Read more...

Christopher Robin's gentle coterie makes an encore appearance in this revisitation of A. A. Milne's beloved characters. Read more...

A thriller as effective in its stylish satire as it is transparent in its political sympathies. Read more...

A psychoanalyst's call to think of "depression" as a factor of experience -- not illness. Read more...

Looking past the icon to find the writer. Read more...

Will the pastrami on rye go the way of the dodo? Read more...

The authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar return with some deadly jesting. Read more...

A new collection of essays by and interviews with famed anime creator Hayao Miyazaki. Read more...

A case for the distinctively Jewish aspect of the American Songbook. Read more...

A hilarious -- and literarily astute -- mashup of literary monuments with the styles of cartoonists ranging from Windsor McKay to Charles Schulz. Read more...

A southern abolitionist, a general's spouse, and the first lady of the Confederacy. Read more...

A life among the leaves. Read more...

The followup disc from the pop chanteuse of Disco Romance returns to dance clubs past. Read more...