The Bardo is a Tibetan Buddhist idea of a suspended state between life and death. Saunders explored the concept in his 2017 ...

His second, “Vigil,” out this month, came to him much more quickly.

The author’s work makes an excellent case that literature can explore virtue—even if his latest novel reveals its pitfalls.

In “Vigil,” spirits rehash the many sins of a dying industrialist.

The author discusses his new novel, Vigil; the source of his ideas; and fiction as a vehicle for truth.

The novel takes place over the course of the final earthly hours for a former oil company CEO and the spirit who comes to ...

Vigil” opens with ultrawealthy oil executive K.J. Boone unconscious on his deathbed, where he is visited by Jill, an ...

George Saunders is at his most lively in the company of the dead. At ease with ghosts. In the 2022 Booker-winning Lincoln in the Bardo, Abraham Lincoln mourns his young son in a graveyard surrounded ...

In Saunders' 'Vigil,' a supernatural guide who comforts dying souls struggles with an unapologetic oil tycoon refusing to acknowledge his role in climate destruction.

“Vigil,” the brilliant and confounding new novel from Booker Prize winner George Saunders, begins with the narrator falling ...

This book may really be about the ways in which we rationalise our lives, fates, choices, when all is ‘too late’ ...

This doesn’t matter much to our narrator, Jill “Doll” Blaine, who has so far comforted 342 dying souls, each equally “a person who had not willed himself into this world and was now being taken out of ...