To this day, I wish I’d asked why the longtime Democrat was at right-leaning Hoover, but this was Barry Diller. Everyone wants to talk to him. Which in a sense explains this review of his excellent ...

Sequel to Tank Water, Michael Burge’s Dirt Trap continues a rural noir series imagined through a queer lens. Journalist James ...

Auslander, vividly up to date with recent events such as the Yom Kippur attack in Manchester, is a lovingly evoked story of a family’s experience of “escape and exile”, leading to Moritz’s somewhat ...

Outraged at what he deemed a literary injustice, Malcolm Cowley used his influence as a consulting editor at Viking and a well-connected critic to give Faulkner his due. In 1944-45 he published a ...

With this brilliantly simple conceit, Markovits launches his hero on a midlife odyssey, a cross-country road trip that ...