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 all the local residents into dangerous excitement, in Stephen Harrigan’s story of a child’s confrontation with his deepest fears. His new novel is “The Leopard is Loose.”
Erik Larson is known for expertly transporting readers to past worlds. Even stories we think we know come to life in a different way...
It's the perennial question: Are we a product of how we were raised or is our identity hard wired by our genetic inheritance? These...
In Gish Jen’s latest “The Resisters,” we meet Gwen who has a Golden Arm and finds herself happily playing in an underground baseball league...
