Review of The Nix by Nathan Hill
Let’s open with this: a politician, the faux-folksy governor of Wyoming—who harbors presidential aspirations, despite a blatant disregard...
Kimmery’s All-Time Favorite Books, Part 1
My household got slaughtered last week by a vicious, soul-sucking GI virus similar to Ebola. I zombied around without sleep for 898...
American Housewife by Helen Ellis
I have never liked short stories. I gravitate toward novels, for their character depth and their elaborate plots, and can’t recall a...
Holidazed by Tracy Curtis
I got my Christmas present early this year: an advance copy of Tracy Curtis’s Holidazed. It’s a collection of 30 holiday essays by the...
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
I’m going to assume that very few of you are socially inept but brilliant male scientists. But—if you were, and you had come to the...