In Maria Stepanova’s novel “The Disappearing Act,” an accidental stopover in a foreign town leads to personal change.

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Composing by hand, without Google or a blinking cursor, reveals the seams of writing — and the surprising benefits of slowing down.

In Woolf’s final, unfinished manuscript, she employs a “methodology of disorder” that enables “that state of mind in which it ...

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A Virginia library has received an unexpected holiday-season return: a copy of Harry the Dirty Dog that was checked out 36 years ago and went on to travel the world with a family of diplomats. Fairfax ...

Vernice and Annie might have grown up together in Louisiana, but in this well crafted and absorbing new novel from the author of An American Marriage, the lives of the two women diverge greatly when ...

I approach every book-review assignment with a professional eagerness. Yet when it comes time to put words on the page, enthusiasm gives way to doubt. No matter how often I’ve done this before, I ...