When the late, lamented Martin Amis titled a nonfiction collection “The War Against Cliché” he was invoking the writer’s fiercely waged campaign against triteness and received wisdom, in which wit and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our ...

Writers on the war in the Middle East' 1/4. Le Monde asked writers Richard Ford, Zeruya Shalev and Navid Kermani for their perspectives on the war.

RICHARD FORD and Colson Whitehead are two of America’s most distinguished living novelists. Mr Ford (pictured left), who is 79 years old, has published eight novels and four short-story collections ...

Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom and Frank Bascombe have been mentioned together quite often for two men who don’t have all that much in common. John Updike introduced Angstrom in 1960 in “Rabbit, Run,” the ...

The Lay of the Land (Knopf) is Richard Ford's third novel about Frank Bascomb, his sportswriter-turned-realtor. Does Ford inhabit the character? Does the character inhabit him? Neither, it turns out.

Lots of summer books traditionally invite readers on a road trip, but when literary masters like Richard Ford and Lorrie Moore are in the drivers' seats, the only thing we readers can count on is that ...

Join Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer, The Committed, and The Refugees) as he reads from his new memoir, A Man of Two Faces, followed by a conversation with Min Jin Lee ...

The first of a two-part conversation about Richard Ford's seventh novel, the powerful story of a teenager, a bank robbery and life’s contradictory experiences.