Reader’s Corner
Reveling in and discussing ideas and books, together.
Fiction
Things We Didn’t See Coming
LET ME BEGIN by saying I make my living teaching creative writing, teaching young people to observe…
The Name of the Nearest River
WHEN FLANNERY O’CONNOR insisted that a good short story will resist summary and paraphrase because…
The Windup Girl
READERS OF NATURE WRITING may not be aware of the deep green streak that runs through much science…
The Widow and the Tree
I DIDN’T MIND much when Cormac McCarthy killed off his cowboy heroes, though I loved them all…
The Year of the Flood
UTOPIAS MAKE for lousy fiction. Who wants to read a novel in which everyone is flawlessly educated,…
The English Major
JIM HARRISON grew up one-eyed in rural Michigan and turned himself into a poet and novelist who wrote…
Pump Six and Other Stories
Paolo Bacigalupi’s debut collection of stories, Pump Six, is a call to get the world…
Wrack and Ruin
The first few pages of Wrack and Ruin start off quietly enough. Lyndon Song, a famous sculptor…
Shadow Country
Over the past half century, no American writer has celebrated the beauty of wild animals or mourned…
World Made by Hand
ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS have blown up Los Angeles and DC. That puts the global economy into a smoking…
