Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Nell Zink’s “Doxology” offers a sweeping, multi-generational story of an American family from the ...

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 ...

Even blindfolded, I would know that is a sentence by Nell Zink. That subtle intersection of the ordinary and the absurd is her trademark maneuver. Wit ricochets around her straight-faced sentences ...

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 ...