Acclaimed literary novelist Franzen gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years. The results document the progress of a mature mind wrestling with literature, and with some of the most important...

The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending.

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.

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...

Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of strange happenings--earthquakes strike the city, and the first one kills his grandmother. During a bitter feud over the inheritance, Louis falls in love with a young seismologist,...

Includes a bonus conversation between the author and narrator. --Container.

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Purity, 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...