Critics’ main problem with these books seems simply to be that they are porn for women.

New Statesman || July 8, 2012

He was a one-armed manual laborer and a peacenik who played with dynamite. He was larger than life, until he died.

The Rumpus || June 17, 2011

Elif Batuman’s life changed when she published a hit book. She writes about how it feels no longer to be the outsider – and about asking Jonathan Franzen for some weed

The Guardian || April 21, 2011

The New York Times || April 8, 2011

The strange fictions of the young adult novelist.

The New York Times Magazine || April 10, 2011

In Kyung-sook Shin’s novel Please Look After Mom, family members suffer guilt and regret when their matriarch goes missing in a Seoul subway station.

The New York Times Book Review || April 3, 2011

As a young writer, I learned the hard way not to read anything by Lorrie Moore before bed.

The Rumpus || May 10, 2010

You could say that talking apes define literature. From the Bible to The Da Vinci Code, what is the Western canon but the grandiloquent, self-obsessed babblings of puffed-up hairless primates?

The New York Review of Books || March 24, 2011

A feminist review exploring Steve Martin’s blunders in constructing a powerful, sexually expressive female protagonist.

Bookslut || February 1, 2011