Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

Bjerkeland’s BEASTS (Levine Querido, 120 pp., paperback, $17.99), translated from the Norwegian by Rosie Hedger, is a ...

Louise told her friends she could make Joe fall in love with her. Clayton helped make the story airtight by “expanding Bronte ...