While promoting his new novel, 'Purity,' the author also revealed he considered adopting an Iraqi orphan in order to understand young people. By THR Staff Jonathan Franzen - H 2014 “I’m not a sexist,” ...

Crossroads: A Novel, by Jonathan Franzen, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2021), 592 pages. It’s hard to write about Jonathan Franzen without rifling through his baggage. After all, there’s so much: his ...

Paula Fox, prize-winning adult and children’s author, chronicler of abandonment, loss and desperation — of what happens when things break down — died last week at 93. She won the Newbery Medal and ...

Exactly 100 years ago Saturday, the U.S. government passed a groundbreaking law to protect migratory birds that fly across the Atlantic. To mark the anniversary, National Geographic magazine helped ...

The Guardian has published a lengthy excerpt from Jonathan Franzen’s upcoming book, The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus, that uses Kraus’s writing about fin-de-siècle Vienna as a lens for ...

Twenty years on from The Corrections, America’s most lauded author is back. But will he put his foot in it again? IT IS 11AM PACIFIC TIME and Jonathan Franzen has just turned on the light. “Special ...

Jonathan Franzen has a real gift for getting people into a tizzy. This time, the fracas was occasioned by a September 13th essay he wrote for the Guardian (“What’s Wrong With the Modern World”) ...

D.J. Waldie is the author of "Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir." [F]or a moment, though I’m alone in bed with a book, I don’t feel alone. For a moment, I belong to a group neither as big as a ...

No contemporary novelist lends himself to easy mockery so readily as Jonathan Franzen, usually for his off-putting public persona as a scold with excessively aggressive views on Oprah, tweeting, and ...

Is Jonathan Franzen's new novel Freedom a work of genius or disappointing? Reviewers, as a group, can't seem to decide. The New York Times reviewed the book so glowingly as to provoke a severe ...

Jonathan Franzen went on Oprah yesterday ostensibly to discuss his novel Freedom, currently Oprah’s Book Club’s selection, but actually they had a public kiss and make up about their 2001 The ...

Jonathan Franzen is looking for an owl. He got a tip off the Internet about an owl living in a particular tree in this particular park in sunny San Jose, Calif. Now we are staring at the tree with ...