This is the debut of our new weekly audiobook column, The Listener. Every Thursday, Laura Miller or another top critic will recommend a great new title. The Listener is sponsored by Audible. Every ...

Fifty years after its publication in 1971, Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, remains an enigma and a delight. Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner.

Introduction Have you ever seen video footage of an avalanche or landslide rolling down a hill? Why is it that at one moment everything seems fine then suddenly the mountain begins to slump? This ...