Do you remember the book that turned you into a CAPITAL R Reader? What I mean is, do you remember the book that moved you from a casual fan ...

One of my very favorite subgenres in fiction is the "return to small hometown after extended absence" narrative. There are a milli...

This week, I got to review Jess Walter's latest novel, So Far Gone , for the  Chicago Review of Books . It's a fantastic novel -- on...

This year, hot girl summer will give way to old white guy fall. New novels from Dan Brown, Ian McEwan, Thomas Pynchon, and John Irving are o...

Karen Russell's new novel The Antidote is absolutely freaking brilliant. It's a novel about injustice, which though set in the 1930...