This new book by Jonathan Franzen, sigh, is terrific. In fact, “Crossroads” is one of his best, overflowing with family crisis, morality, mundanity — a nearly 19th century potboiler of ordinariness, ...

This cover image released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux shows "The End of the End of the Earth," essays by Jonathan Franzen. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux via AP) "The End of the End of the Earth: Essays" ...

Jonathan Franzen on David Foster Wallace“It was still hard not to feel wounded by the part of him that had chose the adulation of strangers over the love of the people closest to him.” Jonathan ...

How do you get people to look up from their phone screens and computers and get them to care about the environment? One good way is simply to expose them to the beauty of birds, the novelist and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Then, of course, “The Corrections” happened. Then “Freedom.” “Purity” sold less than an eighth of the previous two novels but ...

Scientists and climate experts are furious after a New Yorker opinion column declared the fight against climate change useless. In an essay titled "What If We Stopped Pretending" published Sunday, the ...

“It’s like watching someone commit suicide!” one well-known agent says, referring, of course, to the most grievous literary crime since Martin Amis switched agents: Jonathan Franzen’s snubbing of ...

Great American Novelist™ Jonathan Franzen does not like cats because cats are mean to and often kill his only friends, the birds. In Freedom, the only major contemporary American novel to feature a ...

Remember Jonathan Franzen’s New Yorker essay about traveling to a remote Chilean island and coming to terms with David Foster Wallace’s suicide while clinging to a cliff side in a rainstorm? It also ...

Few American writers regularly earn as much conversation as Jonathan Franzen. When advance copies of the 62-year-old’s new novel, Crossroads, began making the rounds, literary Twitter fixated on a bit ...

Just about everybody in Jonathan Franzen’s superb domestic epic “Crossroads” (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 592 pages, ★★★★ out of four) is dealing with a serious spiritual crisis. Russ, a pastor in the ...