This February is a big month for juicy releases from some of your favorite authors. Yann Martel returns with another trippy, animal-filled rumination that will leave you scratching your head, and international bestseller Jeffrey Archer pushes on toward the end of his romp with the Clifton clan. There’s also a fun pair of fictionalized biographies of […]
Lorrie Moore (Bark) and Lydia Davis (Can’t and Won’t) are two masters of the short story whose new collections hit shelves this spring. But if you think of short stories as homework, as slow-moving, language-driven meditations in which nothing ever happens, you’re probably not alone. A recent article in the Millions suggests that our culture’s […]