Michiko Kakutani, tireless New York Times book critic, has high praise today for City on Fire, the debut novel by Garth Risk Hallberg. It is, Kakutani writes, “an amazing virtual reality machine, whisking us back to New York City in the 1970s”:

Yesterday The Atlantic ran a piece reminding everyone that non-fiction books, as a rule, are not fact-checked. If this shakes you to your core, you have not been paying attention.