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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Doxology” passed into English from Medieval Latin “doxologia,” which in turn comes from the Greek term “doxa,” meaning “opinion” or “glory,” and the suffix “-logia,” which refers to oral or written ...