They let children write the story, and rewrite it with each visit. They’re delighting adults too. (It’s a step up from ...

Not long after COVID lockdowns began in the U.S. five years ago this week, many readers and writers started to wonder, with a ...

PERFECTION, by Vincenzo Latronico. Translated by Sophie Hughes.

A posthumous collection of Joan Didion’s diaries, biographies of Yoko Ono and Mark Twain, a history of The Onion — and plenty ...

Like its characters, Brian Castleberry’s second novel, “The Californians,” is full of ambition. It spans eras of American ...