We Are Water

Bestselling author Wally Lamb delivers an affecting story of a Connecticut family in upheaval as its wife and mother leaves and plans to marry a successful businesswoman.

Critical Mass

James Wolcott collects the best of his captivating essays from his earliest days at The Village Voice to his monthly column in Vanity Fair, still essential reading each month for its “Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs”.

The Gellhorn Spirit

November 8: “But the only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice….”  

The Hired Man

The aftermath of atrocities in the former Yugoslavia unspools in a tale of secrets, revelations, and aching suspense.

Camus’s Dream

November 7: “A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”