A person with short brown hair and facial hair is facing the camera with a neutral expression. They are outdoors with a clear blue sky and distant horizon in the background.

Sam Sacks

Sam Sacks has written the Fiction Chronicle for the Wall Street Journal since 2011. His essays and criticism have also appeared in Harper’s, The London Review of Books, The New Republic, Commentary, Prospect and the New Yorker‘s Page-Turner blog.
 
He is a founding editor of the online arts and literature review Open Letters Monthly and he lives in New York.