Alan Hollinghurst has a well-earned reputation as one of the great stylistic writers of our time. If this praise sounds overly exuberant, consider the beguiling opening paragraph from a prior novel, ...

By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer After writing her first novel, After the Eclipse, which pieced together the life and tragic ...

The daunting scale of everything is hard to absorb, and the burden of what's transpired might feel overwhelming. But amid the ...