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When All Is Said and Done By Robert Hill Graywolf, 220 pages, $20 A breathless energy infuses this first novel, set in the early 1960s, in which a marriage is...

One of the reasons we love working on the Magazine is that we can imagine garden parties on long, cold winter days. We examine photographs of lawn furniture, consider menu...

In this era of ardent and shameless self-promotion, quiet talent is easily overlooked. This week, with our cover story "Time traveler," we introduce an understated and gifted photographer, David Plowden,...

Truth and Consequences By Alison Lurie Viking, 240 pages, $24.95 With this winsome novel, Pulitzer Prize winner Alison Lurie returns to the campus of Corinth University (modeled after Cornell University,...

Best of Tin House: Stories Foreword by Dorothy Allison Tim House Books, 447 pages, $18.95 paper "Here is your membership to the largest community we share--each of us alone reaching...

In a city where everything is outsized, the world's busiest airport, widest highways and big shoulders have become a bit of a cliche. But playing softball with a sphere the...

Life and art--which imitates which? That is the theme of this week's Spring Travel issue, in which we let movies take us to places we might not otherwise have ventured....

From visiting the library of Lorain, Ohio, as a boy, to receiving a Pulitzer Prize for his reviews, Michael Dirda has lived a life enriched by books. Dirda regards books...

Kerry Luft joined a Magazine staff meeting one morning to reflect on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It takes a lot to render our hearty band speechless, but Kerry did...

Voices From Chernobyl By Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Keith Gessen Picador, 236 pages, $14 paper April 26 marks the 20th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station,...