"The first time I saw Marian Ballantine she looked like a burst of bittersweet among the winter branches . .... Read More

The long-awaited fourth collection by one of America's foremost poets O Lord of indirection and ellipses, ignore our prayers. Deliver... Read More

Fast on the fins of Attack of the Shark-Headed Zombie is Bill Doyle's second tale of magic and mayhem. Mr. Cigam has... Read More

It is a city of seemingly irreconcilable opposites, simultaneously glorious and ghastly. And it is Ben Taylor’s remarkable ability to... Read More

The Corner Bookstore and Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism present James Higdon, author of The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's... Read More

In the year that saw the start of World War I, the United States was itself on the verge of... Read More

Sweeping from the Central European countryside just before World War II to Paris to contemporary Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I Am Forbidden... Read More

Charlie Blakeman is living in New York, on Washington Square, struggling to write his second novel and floundering, when his... Read More

A wild night outdoors with Bill Buford. A football tradition with Nathaniel Rich. A jog around the reservoir with Mark... Read More