Bonnie Jo Campbell on ‘Mothers, Tell Your Daughters’
In "American Salvage" (2009), her second collection of short stories, Bonnie Jo Campbell staked out her own corner of what might be called Raymond Carver territory — the hard, hardscrabble...
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Bill O’Reilly on ‘Killing Reagan’
Death is big business for Bill O'Reilly. The Fox News Channel personality's series of books about the assassinations of historical figures — "Killing Lincoln" (2011), "Killing Kennedy" (2012), "Killing Jesus"...
Jesse Eisenberg on ‘Bream Gives Me Hiccups & Other Stories’
In many of his movie roles — such as his Oscar-nominated turn as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in "The Social Network" — the actor-writer Jesse Eisenberg plays brainy, driven, all-too-serious...
Chelsea Clinton on ‘It’s Your World’
The apple that is Chelsea Clinton hasn't fallen far from the tree. In the past couple of years, she has joined her father, former President Bill Clinton, and her mother,...
Paul Theroux on ‘Deep South’
Paul Theroux is that rare writer as well-known for his nonfiction books, such as "The Great Railway Bazaar" (1975) and "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" (2008), as he is...
Adam Johnson on ‘Fortune Smiles’
Following his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Orphan Master's Son" (Random House, 2012), Adam Johnson returns to some of that book's themes — defectors from the repressive world of North Korea...
Lauren Holmes on ‘Barbara the Slut and Other People’
The word "slut" exists in a no-man's-land of polite conversation in current-day America. You can say the word without being branded a sexist, but only in certain highly sophisticated contexts....
Salman Rushdie to receive Tribune Literary Award
For more than a decade after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Muslims to assassinate Salman Rushdie for allegedly offending Islam in his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses,"...
Cuban literature at the dawn of the thaw
The island of Cuba has always loomed large in the American imagination — as a tropical paradise of great music, food and cigars, and, since La revolución cubana in the...
Jesse Ball on ‘A Cure for Suicide’
The novels of the Chicago-based writer Jesse Ball — including "Silence Once Begun" (2014), "The Curfew" (2011), "The Way Through Doors" (2009) and "Samedi the Deafness" (2007) — tend to...