Book review of "The Neruda Case" by Roberto Ampuero.

Book review of "A Hologram for the King" by Dave Eggers.

An essay and review of Hamlin Garland's forgotten short story collection "Main-Travelled Roads."

My short story "At the Turn" was published in Issue 5 of Palooka Magazine.

Ian McEwan has always had a legal mind. "Atonement," the novel he is probably best known for, turned on a false accusation, and the ramifications of an unjust conviction based on a relatively thin amount of evidence. "The Children Act," his new book, centers on the other side of the courtroom: the personal ramifications of a judge deciding a difficult case with conflicting evidence.

Imagine if W.G. Sebald numbered his paragraphs. Imagine if he shucked many of those long, discursive takes on architecture and history. And imagine he abandoned his peripatetic plots and instead wrote about doomed and melancholy lovers. Perhaps this gives something of the aesthetic flavor of Álvaro Bisama’s novel Dead Stars, published in Spanish in 2010, but only now appearing in an English translation by Megan McDowell, the first from digital publishing house Ox and Pigeon.

How to be productive-it is one of the challenges young lawyers face. It's not found in any law school curriculum, but it can be just as important as legal knowledge. Young associates are often faced with a bevy of tasks and no clear way to manage them.

We tend to associate W.G. Sebald and his characters strongly with melancholy and sadness. “[T]he figures who populate Sebald’s world are lost souls,” Ruth Franklin has noted, “breaking beneath the burden of their own anguish.”. Susan Sontag said that Sebald’s voice has a “passionate bleakness.”. Sebald’s books…have a posthumous quality to them,” Geoff Dyer stated.

Maria Dolz sees the same couple at the same café in the same city, Madrid, nearly every morning. “[T]he sight of them together” calmed her, and provided her “with a vision of an orderly or, if you prefer, harmonious world.”. Maria works for a book publisher, where she often must deal with vain and pretentious authors — including one who is so infatuated with the Nobel Prize that he has already prepared an acceptance speech in Swedish.

This is a cautious autobiography from Sonia Sotomayor, which still manages to be compelling.

Nguyễn An Tinh was born into a wealthy Saigon family during the Tet Offensive, “when the long chains of firecrackers draped in front of houses exploded polyphonically along with the sound of machine guns.”. She has a beautiful mansion, servants, and is mostly sheltered from the war that has enveloped Vietnam.

“Haven’s Wake” is the second novel from Ladette Randolph, a fifth-generation Nebraskan who currently edits the literary journal Ploughshares.

Mother and daughter from Nebraska co-author book about growing up deaf.

Toobin argues that the agent of "change" is actually Justice Roberts, not President Obama, since many of the Roberts Court's opinions veered away from the direction of the judiciary since.

For Bob Rook, theater in small venues has a distinct advantage: it's "contagious." In fact, he wouldn't use the word "small" at all - it has negative connotations, he said. Rook co-founded TADA Productions, a local theater production company, with his wife, Cris, more than a decade ago.