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Dan Winters America’s Love-Hate Relationship With the Bald Eagle
Revered as a national symbol, reviled as an actual bird
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Michał Klimczak The Most Honest Book About Climate Change Yet
William T. Vollmann’s latest opus is brilliant, but it offers no comfort to its readers.
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Dawid Planeta The Novel That Asks, ‘What Went Wrong With Mankind?’
Richard Powers’s climate-themed epic, The Overstory, embraces a dark optimism about the fate of humanity.
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Grace Heejung Kim The Storyteller Who Offers No Escape
Hungary’s László Krasznahorkai writes fiction devoid of revelation, resolution, and even periods.
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Adrian Tomine Lessons of the Hermit
Hiding in a forest for 27 years, a man found what the rest of us can no longer comprehend: solitude in nature.
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Josh Cochran The Prophecies of Jane Jacobs
She is renowned for championing urban diversity, but her real prescience lay in her fears about the fragility of democracy.
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Gaby D’Alessandro When Parks Were Radical
More than 150 years ago, Frederick Law Olmsted changed how Americans think about public space.
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Wesley Allsbrook The Tender Arsonist
In Jesse Ball’s sixth novel—part thriller, part coming-of-age story—a teenager seeks escape through fire.
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Jimmy Chin The Risky Appeal of Free Climbing
“Some people might call this crazy. I prefer to think of it as badass.”
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Nicolas Dehghani Hit Charade
Meet the bald Norwegians and other unknowns who actually create the songs that top the charts.
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Tomer Hanuka The Book of Sorrow and Forgetting
Kazuo Ishiguro, master of buried secrets, on losing the past
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Chris Koehler Drifter, Dealer, Madman, Spy
Working the literary landscape of international espionage, the novelist Denis Johnson specializes in madness.
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Richie Pope The Mystery of Murakami
His sentences can be awful, his plots are formulaic—yet his novels mesmerize.
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Tim McDonagh Flash Fiction
How Stuart Dybek, a master of the short story, captures elusive memories and moments
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Getty Images Hitler’s Airport
Berlin has buried every trace of the Third Reich—with one big exception.
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The Aliens Next Door
Lorrie Moore’s stories tell truths stranger than the strangest science fiction.
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Javier Jaén The Thomas Pynchon Novel for the Edward Snowden Era
A review of the new novel Bleeding Edge
