Photo by zea / Adobe Stock About the NovelThis is a story of dispossession and a man who wrestled with God: sometimes dispossession…

 The burgeoning shoegaze movement in the United Kingdom and Ireland of the late 1980s caught the world by surprise; at the height of grunge’s…

Photo of Poniatowska by Pedrobautista – Own work, CC BY 3.0 Las siete cabritas (2000), the literal translation of which would…

Photo by Narin Sapaisarn / Adobe Stock The city is a bad wind,the suburbs, nauseating heat waves,and the streets, breath wheezed out of fevered…

Karen Fang is professor of English at the University of Houston and author of the new book Background Artist: The Life and World of Tyrus…