“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.
During this month – and for a quartet of programs – we will be celebrating the form of the short story and those who...
What does hope look like? How do we find and hold onto it in the midst of personal turmoil, communal suffering, global chaos and...
