“I was wrong to buy this notebook, very wrong,” declares Valeria Cossati at the start of Alba de Céspedes’s brilliant 1952 novel, “Forbidden Notebook.” The voice seizes our attention at ...

In the author’s note to her masterful new novel “Forbidden City,” Vanessa Hua reflects that “fiction flourishes where the official record ends.” Her novel bears this out: Hua dares to ...

"I believe in expecting light," says the unnamed narrator of Ellen Cooney's new novel. "That's my job." More specifically, the 36-year-old woman's job is as a chaplain at a medical center ...