It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town, out on the edge of the prairie...

If the government can round up someone and never be required to explain why, then it's no longer the United States of America as you and I always understood it…

That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

None of the men and women who voted for this bill has any right to speak in public about the rule of law anymore, or to take a high moral view of the Third Rei…

Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.-'Abou…

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

Manhattan is not altogether felicitous for fiction. It is not a city of memory, not a family city, not the capital of America so much as the iconic capital of …