For all the combustible material these stories contain, they rarely combust....

YOU 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 ...

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 ...