When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just about everybody in Jonathan Franzen’s superb domestic epic “Crossroads” (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 592 pages, ★★★★ out of ...

The risk of the state-of-the-union novel is that it dates quickly. If The Corrections was a blockbuster despite Enid Lambert proclaiming that disasters “no longer seemed to befall the United States”, ...

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 ...

Thank God for Jonathan Franzen. His new novel, “Crossroads,” is the first of a planned trilogy modestly called “A Key to All Mythologies.” With its dazzling style and tireless attention to the ...

Jonathan Franzen has been at a crossroads before. In 1996, coming off moderate success with his first two literary fiction novels – The Twenty–Seventh City (1988) and Strong Motion (1992) – Franzen ...

Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen’s sixth and most recent novel, is getting another moment in the spotlight as Collider has just ranked it the greatest American book of the last 15 years. “Jonathan Franzen ...

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 ...

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 ...