These essays and reviews are mostly about literary fiction published in the last ten years and are written from the perspective of a fan of the McElroy/Coover/DeLillo axis or, more recently, the Powers/Vollmann/Wallace axis. The review-essays include pieces on all of the National Book Award fiction finalists of the last five years. Reviews selected here first appeared in Electronic Book Review, Barnes and Noble Review, New York Times Book Review, Atlantic, BookForum, The Nation, American B...

Abraham Lincoln trusted and confided in his law partner William “Billy” Herndon, but his still-influential 1889 biography was censored by his collaborator and publisher. In Lincoln’s Billy, Tom LeClair imagines Herndon’s deathbed autobiography and the “real life” of his partner, revealing secrets about a randy and “rasslin’” Lincoln on his youthful trips to New Orleans, the hidden sources of his depression, and the untold cause of his hatred of slavery.Based on the latest ...

Michael Keever, former Celtic teammate of Larry Bird’s, changes his name and passes himself off as Greek-American to play in the Greek Basketball Association. When Michael appears on Greek TV in a public service spot against pollution, a viewer suspects that his ethnic background would not qualify him to play in Greece.

Marshall Preminger, de treinta y siete años, soltero y con una carrera de profesor marcada por varios fracasos, recibe una noticia que podría arreglar su desastrosa situación económica. La súbita muerte de su padre le deja un patrimonio, hasta ese momento desconocido, cuya pieza principal es un apartamento de lujo en un nuevo complejo residencial de Chicago. Al tomar posesión de la herencia Marshall se topa de frente con una comunidad de vecinos que ha transformado el complejo en una micro...

Celebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America’s most innovative and consequential 20th century novelistsIn 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis’s collected nonfiction and his final novel and Jonathan Franzen’s lengthy attack on him in The New Yorker, a number of partisan articles appeared in support of Gaddis’s legacy. In a review in The London Review of Books, critic Hal Foster suggested a reason for disparate responses t...

God has a glorious purpose for His people. And those who understand this will rule and reign with Jesus for eternity.God, in the eternal past, planned for mankind to live on the earth and fulfill a great purpose in the eternal future. Bishop Hamon, a pioneer of restoration in the Church, stands firmly on biblical truth as he explores that great purpose: being conformed to the likeness of Jesus. By tracking the eight major reasons God created human beings, Dr. Hamon...