Roxane Gay on ‘Bad Feminist’
It's not easy being a feminist these days (not that it ever was), in part because the push for equality for women managed to pick up a lot of negative...
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Richard House on ‘The Kills’
It isn't often that literary fiction mixes successfully with the thriller genre. The delicate balance between the rich texture and characters of the former with the propulsive narrative momentum and...
Tom Robbins on ‘Tibetan Peach Pie’
In his best-known novels, including "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues," "Still Life with Woodpecker" and "Jitterbug Perfume," Tom Robbins has charmed several generations of readers with his signature mix of...
Joan Rivers on ‘Diary of a Mad Diva’
It wasn't long ago that Joan Rivers' career seemed to be — as she might have put it, ever so delicately — in the toilet. Banned for decades from "The...
Edan Lepucki on ‘California’
In the world of books, the apocalypse is big business — bigger than ever, in fact, with the surge in popularity of young-adult dystopian novels such as the "Hunger Games"...
Edan Lepucki on ‘California’
In the world of books, the apocalypse is big business — bigger than ever, in fact, with the surge in popularity of young-adult dystopian novels such as the "Hunger Games"...
Maria Venegas on ‘Bulletproof Vest’
Jose Venegas might have been a hero of a corrido, the tragic Mexican ballad form that he loved above all other music. From Mexico to Chicago and back again, he...
Kids dabble in Roth’s dystopian universe at Camp Divergent
NAPERVILLE — "I'm going to show you guys some cool self-defense stuff today," a muscular young man named Mike Corey tells the group of kids clumped around him on the...
Lisa See on ‘China Dolls’
In Lisa See's best-selling novel "Shanghai Girls" (2009) and her memoir "On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family" (1995), the author mines the history of Chinese immigrants...
Lisa See on ‘China Dolls’
In Lisa See's best-selling novel "Shanghai Girls" (2009) and her memoir "On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family" (1995), the author mines the history of Chinese immigrants...