John Boyne is one of Ireland’s most accomplished contemporary novelists, perhaps best known for “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.” His latest, “The Elements,”...
The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a young boy’s world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the Oklahoma City Zoo, throwing...
Lydia Millet’s previous novel, “A Children’s Bible,” was a National Book Award Finalist. Her follow-up is “Dinosaurs” is deadpan funny and yet deals with...