Valerie Sayers
A Bronx Tale
As her memoir My Beloved World makes clear, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has spent a lifetime challenging offensive remarks about minorities and the poor.
Men Behaving Badly
Junot Díaz’s fiction alternately unsettles, amuses, challenges, delights, and wounds. His new collection of stories is especially wounding, playing nine variations on the theme of faithless Dominican-American men and the women they betray.
Caffeinated Realism
A review of Jonathan Franzen's novel The Corrections.
Brooklyn, Bewitched
A short story by the author of 'Who Do You Love,' 'Brain Fever,' and other novels.
A Noisy Soul
Roberto Bolaño’s defiant fiction.
There Is a Balm
Valerie Sayers reviews Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
American Ghosts
In his new memoir, writer David Plante offers a strange, mysterious, and deeply hopeful sense of spiritual possibility. Valerie Sayers reviews.

