Steve’s Weekly Blog: ‘The Nix’ by Nathan Hill

  Not so long ago, warnings kept bubbling up about the imminent demise of the novel in an era of information supersaturation. In fact, we need the restorative space of books more than ever, especially the kind of deceptively profound and rollicking entertainment that Nathan Hill delivers with his debut novel, “The Nix,” a feat of levitation that wears its seriousness lightly …