Shmulkin, the whip-smart Jewish-Korean- American child narrator of Vera, or Faith, Gary Shteyngart’s sixth novel, which is a ...

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In what may be the only joke in this book – it is hard to tell, because quite often reading it I started to believe the whole ...

It is more than 40 years since Tom Wolfe said to me, in a Chinese restaurant on Manhattan’s Lexington Avenue, that ‘Modern’ ...

Colonel Tom Parker (1909-97) was the man who ripped Elvis Presley off and worked him to death. That’s the received wisdom ...

There were years when, like many others, I dreamed of crossing America coast to coast, riding the Greyhound bus. It was the ...