Mark Haskell Smith is the author of six novels, including Moist, Salty, and Blown, as well as three nonfiction books, most recently Rude Talk in Athens: Ancient Rivals, the Birth of Comedy, and a Writer’s Journey Through Greece.
In The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis goes through the looking glass.
Andrew Sean Greer’s Less Is Lost, the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize winner, is a looser, shaggier book.
Rabih Alameddine discusses his new novel, The Wrong End of the Telescope.
What maps—and imagination—tell us about who we are.
Celebrate a poetic change of season with essential works from Jim Harrison, Kim Shuck, and Forrest Gander.