Farrar, Straus and Giroux

SOLD OUT: Talking Volumes: Jonathan Franzen

Wells Tower

Policy and a Pint: No Impact Man

Graywolf Press is lone wolf in book publishing

The publisher is a thousand miles from NYC but remains one of the best

Sibling rivalries battle for attention on the bookshelves this summer

As the memoir boom winds down, authors are training their sights on sis and bro

The Man with the Golden Ears

John Hammond had impeccable taste in music—and rarely hesitated to say so

Oedipus Got Off Easy

She collapsed Christmas. She made crazy kimonos. Thanks, Mom, for everything!

Etgar Keret: The Nimrod Flip Out: Stories

She collapsed Christmas. She made crazy kimonos. Thanks, Mom, for everything!

Artists of the Year

Hurricanes, war, avian flu, locust plagues, that annoying song you couldn't get out of your head. It wasn't the greatest of all possible years. Nor was it halfway decent. But to prove that it wasn't all bad, we asked 29 writers to rave about the ar

Achilles Has Some Issues He'd Like To Talk About

The myths go modern in 'Songs on Bronze'

Maidenhead Revisited

Why has Tom Wolfe written a 676-page novel about a college girl's virginity?

What a Country!

David Bezmozgis weaves a new tune out of an immigrant's song

Jeff Clark: Music and Suicide

David Bezmozgis weaves a new tune out of an immigrant's song

In The Ghetto

David Bezmozgis weaves a new tune out of an immigrant's song

Your Own Personal Jesus

American history gives a five-minute makeover to the Son of God

Real Life Rock Top 10

Pearl Jam goes on hunger strike, JFK buys you a spaghetti dinner, and Jeff Bridges asks Bob Dylan to swallow his pride

Jesus Died For This Book

James Wood creates a whiny liar who's got it in for God

Panos Karnezis: Little Infamies

James Wood creates a whiny liar who's got it in for God

Laugh the Beloved Country

An African comedy of cattle prophecies and cell-phone chieftains

Artists of the Year

An African comedy of cattle prophecies and cell-phone chieftains

Jay and Silent Yobs Strike Back

Ricky Jay Collects Buried Tales of Hunger Artists and Crucifix Crooners

Bruce Olds: Bucking the Tiger

Ricky Jay Collects Buried Tales of Hunger Artists and Crucifix Crooners

Philip Gourevitch: A Cold Case

Ricky Jay Collects Buried Tales of Hunger Artists and Crucifix Crooners

Cooking the Books

Grove/Atlantic tests its recipe for prefab classics with Leif Enger's literary potboiler Peace Like a River

The Last Supper

With an ambitious novel that centers on an ordinary family dinner, Jonathan Franzen sits down at America's table and feasts on dysfunction

A World Atop the Ruins

Buffoons on the ground, dictators in space: Emmanuel Dongala and the tragicomedy of Congo

Kathleen Cambor: In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden

Buffoons on the ground, dictators in space: Emmanuel Dongala and the tragicomedy of Congo

Mala Vista Antisocial Club

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Dirty Havana Trilogy wallows in the seediness of Castro's Cuba

Tim Krabbé: The Cave

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Dirty Havana Trilogy wallows in the seediness of Castro's Cuba

Race for Last

In One Drop of Blood,writer Scott L. Malcomson examines the destructive legacy of racial designations

Akil Sharma: An Obedient Father

In One Drop of Blood,writer Scott L. Malcomson examines the destructive legacy of racial designations

Charles Wright: Negative Blue
Martín Espada: A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen

In One Drop of Blood,writer Scott L. Malcomson examines the destructive legacy of racial designations

Susan Sontag: In America

In One Drop of Blood,writer Scott L. Malcomson examines the destructive legacy of racial designations

Good Works Make Great Reading

In One Drop of Blood,writer Scott L. Malcomson examines the destructive legacy of racial designations

School Daze

In One Drop of Blood,writer Scott L. Malcomson examines the destructive legacy of racial designations

Brooks Hansen: Perlman's Ordeal

In One Drop of Blood,writer Scott L. Malcomson examines the destructive legacy of racial designations

Buried Alive

New fiction by Annie Proulx and Pat Barker delves into the dirt of memory and the legends of the land

John Ashbery: Girls on the Run

New fiction by Annie Proulx and Pat Barker delves into the dirt of memory and the legends of the land

King of Pain

Les Murray's epic poetic hero, Fredy Neptune, takes in a century's suffering without feeling a thing

No Place Like Home

Mark Fritz's Lost on Earth follows the nomads of the new geopolitics; Tara Bahrampour's To See and See Again takes the author back to the Iran her family fled

Seamus Heaney: Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996

Mark Fritz's Lost on Earth follows the nomads of the new geopolitics; Tara Bahrampour's To See and See Again takes the author back to the Iran her family fled

Artists of the Year

Mark Fritz's Lost on Earth follows the nomads of the new geopolitics; Tara Bahrampour's To See and See Again takes the author back to the Iran her family fled

The Big One

Mark Fritz's Lost on Earth follows the nomads of the new geopolitics; Tara Bahrampour's To See and See Again takes the author back to the Iran her family fled

Desert Solitaire

Mark Fritz's Lost on Earth follows the nomads of the new geopolitics; Tara Bahrampour's To See and See Again takes the author back to the Iran her family fled

Thomas Brussig: Heroes Like Us

Mark Fritz's Lost on Earth follows the nomads of the new geopolitics; Tara Bahrampour's To See and See Again takes the author back to the Iran her family fled

Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma

Mark Fritz's Lost on Earth follows the nomads of the new geopolitics; Tara Bahrampour's To See and See Again takes the author back to the Iran her family fled