On the jacket of George Saunders’s most recent collection of short fiction, In Persuasion Nation, the publishers claim that the stories inside “attest to a new level of empathy and emotional conviction in Saunders’s writing.” While it’s true that these stories are empathetic and full of emotional...

“In the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime,” says Cormac Mcmarthy in The Road. This is also the quote that opens Zeitoun, the newest project from Dave Eggers. This strict nonfiction narrative account by Eggers is his first, and though different from some...

Anne Lamott’s latest work is more of the same. For those who admire Lamott’s writing, this is good news. Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith is further evidence that Lamott is a supreme talent, a writer who can unearth profound truth buried among the mundane. Having already written two...