Peter needs Ann. The question is how, despite their superficial similarity, this mother and son came to be parted, and why Ann has been unable to...
HOW TO SLEEP AT NIGHT, by Elizabeth Harris The witty opening of Elizabeth Harris’s “How to Sleep at Night” finds Ethan Keller confessing “something terrible” to...
This inertness characterizes the novel. Korol has returned in part so that Marianna can finally account for her secrets, but she’s, well, dead. At another point,...
GOLDEN YEARS: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age, by James Chappel “You see these gray hairs?” Dorothy Parker asked in The New Yorker in 1928....
Anita Desai has lived in Delhi and London and Boston, but when she settled, she chose the Hudson River Valley, in New York State. She first...
A strong sense of place can deeply influence a story, and in some cases, the setting can even feel like a character itself. This week’s literary...
THE GRANDDAUGHTER, by Bernhard Schlink. Translated by Charlotte Collins. When it comes to women revealing what they really think about their families after they die, it’s...
PLAYWORLD, by Adam Ross Before “adulting,” there were grown-ups: a word even more squiggly, if you think about it, and one that in Adam Ross’s new...
Dear readers, When a friend forwarded some fresh ridiculous news about billionaires recently — you might have heard it’s a gangbusters time to be one —...
THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE COMMON OCTOPUS, by Emma Knight As a British reader, I am admittedly fussy when it comes to mysteries that take place...
