Connecting across generations can be tough, even in the same family. This is at the heart of Amy Tan’s 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club. This week, we're bringing you an episode from NPR's Books We Loved ...
Enrique Vila-Matas, trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa and Sophie Hughes. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2732-2 In this impressive novel, Vila-Matas (Bartleby & ...
I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended ...
About to dive into 'Cindy Ann' tonight? Figuring out where to stream, rent, buy, or watch where to stream or rent the Leon Garbers directed movie can be more complicated than expected so we at ...
José Saramago, trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-547-35258-9 This charming tale of an elephant given by the 16th-century Portuguese ...
China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea has steadily increased, resulting in heightened tensions with Southeast Asian claimant states, particularly the Philippines, at the Second Thomas Shoal in ...