If heaven, as the Talking Heads lyric puts it, is a place where nothing ever happens, it has nevertheless powered numerous books up American best-seller lists. In the past decade, several titles have ...

Christopher R. Miller
Christopher R. Miller is a professor of English at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). He is the author of Surprise: The Poetics of the Unexpected from Milton to Austen (2015) and The Invention of Evening: Perception and Time in Romantic Poetry (2006).