It was a bit uncanny to read Nell Zink’s new novel, “Doxology,” in the wake of the suicide this month of David Berman, the beloved singer and songwriter best known for his work with Silver Jews, his ...

During the 2016 election, I worked in events at Politics and Prose, one of Washington, D.C.'s best-beloved bookstores. My office shared a wall with Comet Ping Pong, a similarly beloved pizza ...

The congregation in the little Baptist church I attended as a child always stood and sang the following as the ushers took the collection plates to the altar: Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.” ...

Just halfway through “Doxology,” Nell Zink solves climate change, and the entire planet owes it to her for coming up with the revolutionary idea of ending economic growth. (Basically, ending ...

Nell Zink’s “Doxology” offers a sweeping, multi-generational story of an American family from the 1980s to our current moment. It’s a deeply modern epic that whips through cultural touchstones like ...

You didn’t have to pay extra-close attention to David Cook’s introduction on Tuesday night to hear him credit Doxology (pictured with Cook inset), the little-known Seattle band whose arrangement of ...

The opening pages of Nell Zink’s irreverent, ersatz social novel “Doxology” (Ecco, 416 pp., ★★★½ out of four stars) suggest a quirky tale about parenthood and punk rock in 1980s New York. But it soon ...

Nell Zink’s new novel summons a time when young people could run away from home to the big city without a trust-fund and make major life decisions inspired by Dionysian musical subcultures. That would ...

Keep on, Dear Reader. You’ll get the answer (and maybe more than one). Greek and middle Latin can provide some roots of said word. Here is “doxa” or “praise,” “opinion.” Then we find “dokein”…”to seem ...

With the precision of a sniper, Nell Zink nails the disorientation of coming of age in the 1980s. It was a time when all of the lush promises of “communal solidarity and LSD” gave way to a “haze of ...