How do you get people to look up from their phone screens and computers and get them to care about the environment? One good way is simply to expose them to the beauty of birds, the novelist and ...

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 ...

Jonathan Franzen on David Foster Wallace“It was still hard not to feel wounded by the part of him that had chose the adulation of strangers over the love of the people closest to him.” Jonathan ...

Scientists and climate experts are furious after a New Yorker opinion column declared the fight against climate change useless. In an essay titled "What If We Stopped Pretending" published Sunday, the ...

Remember Jonathan Franzen’s New Yorker essay about traveling to a remote Chilean island and coming to terms with David Foster Wallace’s suicide while clinging to a cliff side in a rainstorm? It also ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The biggest novel of the fall is experiencing a backlash from critics saying coverage is overblown, but Lizzie Skurnick writes that it’s not Franzen’s fault, ...

I know, I know, he’s a Great Author(TM). Super talented, apparently. But I don’t hate him on literary grounds. My hatred also has nothing to do with professional jealousy (I don’t think. Though if ...

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 ...