The View From Above: Rebecca Lee’s Clear-Eyed PerspectivesFor all the combustible material these stories contain, they rarely combust....KELSEY JOSEPH
God in Wayward Forms: Jamie Quatro’s Salvation-Seeking AdulteressesYOU MAY BE FAMILIAR with the archetypal post–New Age character in Jamie Quatro’s debut story collection: the Yogi Calming Tea–drinking, middle-aged mother in “running tights,” dropping her kids off at school, picking ...KELSEY JOSEPH
Is This Us? On George Saunders’s “Tenth of December”IN A RECENT INTERVIEW with Michael Silverblatt of Bookworm, George Saunders announced the triumph of capitalism: “In our time, I think, capitalism has just won. There’s no question. It’s just an overwhelming victory for capitalism.” Yet Saunders, with his ...KELSEY JOSEPHFICTION