The novel takes place over the course of the final earthly hours for a former oil company CEO and the spirit who comes to ...

In Saunders' 'Vigil,' a supernatural guide who comforts dying souls struggles with an unapologetic oil tycoon refusing to acknowledge his role in climate destruction.

The award-winning writer's latest book is already being hailed as one of the best novels of 2026.

The author’s work makes an excellent case that literature can explore virtue—even if his latest novel reveals its pitfalls.

This doesn’t matter much to our narrator, Jill “Doll” Blaine, who has so far comforted 342 dying souls, each equally “a person who had not willed himself into this world and was now being taken out of ...

The author discusses his new novel, Vigil; the source of his ideas; and fiction as a vehicle for truth.

Vigil” opens with ultrawealthy oil executive K.J. Boone unconscious on his deathbed, where he is visited by Jill, an ...

His second, “Vigil,” out this month, came to him much more quickly.

George Saunders's place among the best living American writers is secure. And while Saunders is not often included in discussions of the best Catholic writers, in both his upbringing and his thematic ...

NEW YORK – George Saunders' path from obscurity to acclaim began some 30 years ago, not long after he finished a novel his wife could hardly stand. “I used to think the job of serious fiction was to ...