This cover image released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux shows "The End of the End of the Earth," essays by Jonathan Franzen. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux via AP) "The End of the End of the Earth: Essays" ...

In Jonathan Franzen's new novel, "Purity," there is sex, infidelity, murder, lies -- and humor. "I think of myself as a funny writer. Not everyone sees it that way, but people making mistakes are ...

How do you get people to look up from their phone screens and computers and get them to care about the environment? One good way is simply to expose them to the beauty of birds, the novelist and ...

Jonathan Franzen on David Foster Wallace“It was still hard not to feel wounded by the part of him that had chose the adulation of strangers over the love of the people closest to him.” Jonathan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Then, of course, “The Corrections” happened. Then “Freedom.” “Purity” sold less than an eighth of the previous two novels but ...

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 ...

Remember Jonathan Franzen’s New Yorker essay about traveling to a remote Chilean island and coming to terms with David Foster Wallace’s suicide while clinging to a cliff side in a rainstorm? It also ...

This new book by Jonathan Franzen, sigh, is terrific. In fact, “Crossroads” is one of his best, overflowing with family crisis, morality, mundanity — a nearly 19th century potboiler of ordinariness, ...

Tomorrow Studios (“Physical,” “Snowpiercer”) is adapting Jonathan Franzen’s New York Times bestselling “Freedom: A Novel” into a television series with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions (“The Good ...

“It’s like watching someone commit suicide!” one well-known agent says, referring, of course, to the most grievous literary crime since Martin Amis switched agents: Jonathan Franzen’s snubbing of ...

Jonathan Franzen, wearing a colorful patterned shirt, blue jeans and dusty boots, laughed at the burst of applause that greeted him and his interviewer, Héctor Tobar, as they walked onto the stage. On ...