“The Unfolding,” a sharp new satire by A.M. Homes, opens just after that national disaster that reshaped America in the early 21st century. The survivors are stunned, disbelieving, still surveying the ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author A.M. Homes about her new book, The Unfolding, which focuses on a Republican power broker between election night 2008 and Inauguration Day in January 2009. The ...

I have been reading A.M. Homes’ work since I was in college. “The Safety of Objects,” her mind-bending and boundary-crossing debut story collection, had one of the most profound effects on me as a ...

The apocalypse is such a longstanding obsession in American literature that it has been easy—probably too easy—for novelists to integrate extraordinary events into the worldview of their books. This ...

Early reviewers of “The Unfolding” expressed their divided feelings about the novel. NOT whether it is first rate or not — everyone admires A.M. Homes’ work and especially this novel — but rather how ...

Political satire finds itself on a dangerous collision course with reality in A.M. Homes’s The Unfolding, her 13th book—and her first novel in 10 years. Known for her preternatural ability to hone in ...

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