Just Like Brian Wilson Did

What's All the Kerfuffle About?

REVIEW: 'Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English' by Ben Yagoda

Italian Americans for Harris: An Offer You Can Refuse

Paisans around America skipped Sunday family dinners to praise Sunday family dinners

For the Sake of Argument

REVIEW: ‘Farnsworth’s Classical English Argument’ by Ward Farnsworth

The Captain of Yacht Rock

REVIEW: ‘What a Fool Believes: A Memoir’ by Michael McDonald with Paul Reiser

Flannery for the Faithful and the Unfamiliar

REVIEW: ‘Wildcat’

Campus Castoffs

REVIEW: ‘How I Won a Nobel Prize’ by Julius Taranto

Death Becomes Her

REVIEW: ‘I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home’ by Lorrie Moore

Any Major Dude Will Tell You Steely Dan Rocks (in a Creepy, Jazzy Kind of Way)

REVIEW: ‘Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan’

REVIEW: ‘Lucky Hank’

AMC’s adaptation of the Richard Russo novel is a good show—but it’s no Straight Man.