We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Leif Enger, the award-winning author of "Peace Like a River," returns with a strange, alluring novel, "I Cheerfully ...

Cover art for “I Cheerfully Refuse” owned by Grove Atlantic. Whoever wrote the jacket blurb for Leif Enger’s “I Cheerfully Refuse” seems to have read a different novel than I did. The book’s jacket ...

T.S. Eliot claimed, “This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper.” That whimper is the sound of me being buried under novels about it. This week I’m recovering from one apocalyptic ...

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