In the sweltering heat of one summer in Grinnell, Iowa, Claire and Don Lowry discover that marrie...

The author of Please Dont Come Back from the Moon and My American Unhappiness delivers his breako...

';Why are you so unhappy?' That's the question that Zeke Pappas, a thirty-three-year-old scholar,...

The summer Michael Smolij turns sixteen, his father disappears. One by one other men also vanish ...

'Bakopoulos has invented a man for all rainy seasons--a horny, heartbroken cousin of Richard Ford...

Neil Nakadate is Emeritus Professor of English, Iowa State University.

As the summer lingers and the temperature rises, this quotidian town's adults grow wilder and mor...

In the sweltering heat of one summer in Grinnell, Iowa, Claire and Don Lowry discover that marrie...

This tale of young men growing up in a working-class Michigan town without fathers to guide them ...

When I was sixteen, my father went to the moon. When Michael was sixteen his father left home. He...