Philipp Meyer’s debut novel American Rust has a picture of an oxidized railroad spike on its cover. It was a Philipp Meyer, in one piece. But Ms. Newberg, a powerful presence in New York publishing ...

Philipp Meyer's second novel, "The Son," is positioned to be the big literary read of the summer. Alexandra Alter joins Lunch Break with a look at how the author, whose first novel drew comparisons to ...

On paper, author Philipp Meyer makes it easy for other writers to hate his guts. His first novel, "American Rust," earned a record advance of $400,000 from publishers; the famously harsh New York ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... FICTION: EPIC The Son by Philipp Meyer (Ecco) In 2009, as the Great Recession was still dragging on, a young man from Baltimore published his first novel, a ...

Most book to movie or TV adaptations are pretty loose with their source material, often to the consternation of fans. And the AMC adaptation of The Son, a sprawling story of family history in Texas, ...

“The Son” by Philipp Meyer (Ecco, 561 pages, $27.99) A few years ago when I reviewed Philipp Meyer’s debut novel, “American Rust,” I noted that novelists spend entire careers trying to write even one ...

Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy should welcome Philipp Meyer’s The Son into the the pantheon of great Westerns. Ken Tucker on a modern take on Indians, Texas, and buffalo. The go-to Great Modernist ...

The Texas of Philipp Meyer's novel The Son is a place without mercy. Blood flows freely — from men and women, settlers and Comanches, Rangers and Tejanos. The very land itself is brutal and brutalized ...