“It was no great surprise that Lowell threw himself into Catholicism and took his Catholicism to a psychotic extreme.”

'Lila,' by Marilynne Robinson

Amber Dermont has written the great American novels--plural.

Youthful emotions recalled in the relative tranquility of adulthood.

Jose Saramago takes delight in pointing out religious duplicity and delusion.

An post-apocalyptic novel from James Kunstler marvels at humanity's ability to survive and adapt.

T.C. Boyles newest collection of short stories in one way or another feature lost or threatened souls.

'Let the Great World Spin' is one of the more artful works of fiction to appear in the past 10 years.

The Portugese writer Jos eacute Saramago received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998 in part for novelistic fables that powerfully critique social institutions and human failings Now 86 years old Saramago has based his latest novel Death With Interruptions on the extraordinary premise that

James Howard Kunstler rsquo s novel begins in the pastoral setting of a riverbank where the narrator Robert Earle and his best friend Loren Holder have concluded a successful fishing excursion Although they are slightly intoxicated by the natural beauty around them and by some home-made wine th