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I have some questions for you, Mr. Levin. You're a very good writer. You KNOW you're a very good writer. You're also a very self...

By the standard definition of dystopia -- an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice -- Celeste Ng's new n...

I have no idea if Teddy Wayne had Ignatius Reilly - the pugnacious protagonist of the classic novel A Confederacy of Dunces - in mind as he...

Joe Meno is the best, and his new novel, Book of Extraordinary Tragedies , is another terrifically quintessential Chicago story from him. It...