Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare is one of those books. Sometimes entertaining and sometimes dull, often hilarious but also relentlessly uncheerful, and packed with brilliant observations as well as ...

In Halle Butler’s new book, “Banal Nightmare,” a 30-something woman returns to her hometown to get out of a rut and reassess her life after a bad breakup. By Amil Niazi Amil Niazi is a ...

2 Live Crew didn't just test the boundary of good taste; they s*** all over it. In 1989, their album As Nasty As They Wanna Be boasted some of the raunchiest music ever heard — and fans loved ...

Therapy-speak has taken over a group of Millennials living in the midwestern college town of X, the setting of Halle Butler’s Banal Nightmare. The novel lives up to its name in a variety of ways ...