Ken Kalfus

Thank you. I hope it stays fiction.

Jason Villemez @JasonVillemez

I want to shout out @KenKalfus and his incredibly timely novel 2 A.M. in Little America. It's about an American refugee abroad who has escaped the country (which is now dominated by local militias and paramilitaries). Centralized government is gone. People killed bc of politics.. https://t.co/xknSAj83mR

RT @sciam: For only the second time in our 179-year history, the editors of Scientific American are endorsing a candidate for president. Th…

Eye-opening and poignant. After all the wars for national identity, the winners and losers are making new lives in other countries.

Lily Lynch @lilyslynch

I wrote about Balkan demographic oblivion for @thebafflermag https://t.co/Yq2EwWVxlS

Pleased to have taken part in the poll, excited to see the rest of the list!

Gilbert Cruz @gilbertcruz

The Book Review polled hundreds of writers for this project. It will roll out over the next several days. https://t.co/ldVvWvRZ9J

RIP the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare, realist, fabulist and nationalist. Delighted to have reviewed 3 of his books. My favorite is “Chronicle in Stone,” set in the southern city of Gjirokastra during WWII. I reviewed it for the Village Voice Literary Supplement, RIP ditto.

RT @RobynDixon__: Thinking of our brave colleague Evan Gershkovich, an immensely talented young journalist from the Wall Street Journal who…

I've handed in my ballot for @nytimesbooks, which has asked me and a few hundred other literary types to name the 10 best books of the last 25 years, fiction and nonfiction, for an upcoming article. Here's my list, somewhat personal and arbitrary, based on how they still move me. https://t.co/pspD0or5F3

RT @NewYorker: A cartoon by Benjamin Schwartz, from 2015. #NewYorkerCartoons https://t.co/wmfVcKgQQa https://t.co/na20kw3Anv

RT @chrisoIIey: When SEPTA buys new el cars, they need to be designed like New York subway cars with the seats along the walls to maximize…

You review it. That’s the assignment. Try to make the review interesting, of course, but you owe it to readers to tell them that the book left you cold and why. If every published review was positive, we'd never learn why books sometimes fail.

RT @NatFairweather: https://t.co/RiSQ8zrZon Fantastic opportunity for young foreign correspondents at The Times - please apply!

RT @nicholsonbaker8: John Updike in 1960, pastel and digital, after a photo by Alfred Knopf. Knopf took the photo after cutting some objec…