Baudelaire, in a late poem, pictures justice as a daybreak under dire circumstances—“the terrifying dawn,” he writes, “Of strict justice.” To God, described only as “the judge” in the poem, and to his ...

Sergio De La Pava, author of the big, motley debut novel A Naked Singularity, has a great ear. You can almost see it, this giant ear about five times too big sticking out of his head, plucking voices ...

Arlington County Treasurer Carla de la Pava was sworn in as the President of the Treasurers’ Association of Virginia (TAV) at the association’s annual conference in Arlington. “I am humbled and ...

Sergio De La Pava was a public defender in the Manhattan courts when, in 1998, he began writing the story of an attorney not unlike himself who begins to unravel as he questions the justice dispensed ...

In a 1971 essay, the literature scholar Michael Holquist explained the central characteristic of an increasingly prominent strand of crime fiction. “If, in the detective story, death must be solved,” ...

Like Casi, his overworked protagonist in A Naked Singularity, Sergio de la Pava is a public defender in Manhattan. Casi defends drug addicts and immigrants, avoids his neighbors, gets talked into ...

Joseph Epstein got it right. With wit and maybe just a smidgen of venom — his patented brew — the veteran essayist and literary critic based in Evanston described the frustration of encountering a ...