“Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today,” says a character in “The Vulnerables,” the ninth novel by National Book Award winner Sigrid Nunez. “The Vulnerables” offers a meditation on our contemporary era, asking how present reality affects the way a person looks back on their past.
Oscar nominated filmmaker and author John Sayles’s new novel, “Jamie MacGillivray: The Renegade’s Journey,” spans 13 years, two continents, several wars, and many smoldering,...
This week, Elizabeth Brundage discusses her new book “The Vanishing Point,” which takes a close look at relationships; the mistakes we make early on...