The latest of Karina Yan Glaser’s Vanderbeekers books, featuring a large, biracial clan in Harlem, offers a case study in the pleasures of the familiar.
“Fine, if you insist,” West tells men in “The Witches Are Coming,” her new essay collection. “This is a witch hunt. We’re witches, and we’re hunting you.”
Listlessness was Juan Carlos Onetti’s great theme. He ushered Spanish-language fiction into modernity and influenced writers from Julio Cortázar to Mario Vargas Llosa.
Sarah Miller’s “The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets” captures the sad situation of five little girls who became a Depression-era spectacle.