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.

The celebrated author’s new novel ‘Vigil’ was inspired by his own hopes and fears for the end of his life—and the end of ...

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

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

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 ...

Before he became a Booker Prize-winning novelist, George Saunders was an oil man. He found himself in the industry in the early 1980s, in his 20s, working as a geophysical engineer. “It was a great ...

From Thomas Pynchon, Zadie Smith and Margaret Atwood to Barack Obama and the editors of Time magazine, it seems everyone who is anyone is lining up to sing the praises of George Saunders. Saunders is ...

Archival clip of George Saunders: What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human ...

By George Saunders. Random House; 192 pages; $28. Bloomsbury; £18.99. W hat is fiction for? In an idealistic view, it lets ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with author George Saunders on his latest novel Vigil, and why he finds himself revisiting death in his work.