Any resident of Central Pennsylvania who lived through the flood of June 1972 can’t help but possess indelible memories of its devastation. That cataclysm lies at the heart of ...

Any resident of Central Pennsylvania who lived through the flood of June 1972 can’t help but possess indelible memories of its devastation. That cataclysm lies at the heart of ...
The Nix by Nathan Hill (Alfred A. Knopf, $27.95, 640 pages)
In an age when the attention span for some...
1. Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad...