A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening.

Louis Holland falls in love with a seismologist who discovers that recent Boston earthquakes had human causes, in a novel that deals with such issues as environmental pollution, religious fundamentalism, abortion, and the threat...

A brilliantly perceptive and moving novel, that announced Jonathan Franzen as one of our greatest living writers. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography -...

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author ofFreedom and The Corrections. Franzen's great loves are literatureand birds, and this essay collection is a passionate argument for both.

A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom and The Corrections

The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter...

Franzen presents new translations and annotations of the work of early twentieth-century satirist Karl Kraus, who, via his self-published magazine Die Fackel, attacked the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing...