Sam Lipsyte’s latest novel does a bang-up job of capturing the edgy and zany milieu of the early ’90s.
American fiction
Fuse Book Review: Novelist Jay McInerney — Nimble Chronicler of America’s Upper Class
Jay McInerney’s characters may live on exotic mixed drinks and fine wines, but they still suffer moral dilemmas and have consciences they cannot silence.
Book Review: Towering Rage and Bottomless Mirth—Jonathan Franzen’s “Purity”
My biggest gripe is with a central tenet of Jonathan Franzen’s fiction: communication between generations is impossible.
Book Review: “Half an Inch of Water” — Nine Stories that Peer Memorably into Eternity
One of the hardest things to do as a writer of contemporary fiction is to create characters who are good.
Book Review: Marilynne Robinson’s “Lila” — A Vision of Life More Damned Than Redeemed
Lila is an ambitious book that is deeply flawed and not nearly in the same class as Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead.
Book Review: Donald Antrim’s “The Emerald Light in the Air” — Unabashedly Gorgeous
The Emerald Light in the Air is important reading for those interested in the state of the American short story, or of American fiction in general.