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 ...

Nell Zink's "Doxology" feels as if it should come with a soundtrack drawn from the independent music scene of New York in the 1990s. Zink's former work as the editor of an indie-rock fanzine provides ...

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.” ...

The novels of the US writer Nell Zink tend to be thrillingly unhinged, apparently written on the fly – within a month or even a week – and buzzing with witty dialogue and zany plots. In Mislaid, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...