After early success with her first book, Mona Susan Power sank into years of depression. A new one, “A Council of Dolls,” offered her a chance to heal.
“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” opens with the discovery of a skeleton in a well, and then flashes back to explore its connection to a town’s Black, Jewish and immigrant history.
In Catherine Chidgey’s seventh novel, “Pet,” a motherless 12-year-old girl falls under the intoxicating spell of a mysterious teacher at her Catholic school in New Zealand.
She oversaw Modern Photography for 20 years and wrote an acclaimed book about her rough-and-tumble childhood, some of it spent in an orphanage and in remote Alaska.
In a widely read book, he detailed gruesome biological experiments on people at a secret Imperial Army site in occupied China before and during World War II.
In this excerpt from “August Wilson: A Life,” the playwright, on the cusp of stardom, is polishing off his latest play, “Fences,” at the O’Neill writers’ conference.
For the children’s book creators Doug Salati, Brian Floca, Sophie Blackall, Rowboat Watkins, Johnny Marciano and Dasha Tolstikova, the light-filled space has become much more than just a place to work.