A Pearl Buck Novel, New After 4 Decades
“The Eternal Wonder,” an unpublished novel by Pearl S. Buck that surfaced last year in a storage unit, is to be released this fall by Open Road ...
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Cannes Film Festival: James Franco on Adapting Novels and Multitasking
James Franco, whose Faulkner adaptation for the big-screen, "As I Lay Dying," is playing at Cannes, discusses his love of Faulkner and his ability to ...
Imagining a Past That Isn’t His Own
Bill Cheng’s first novel, “Southern Cross the Dog,” is set in Mississippi during the Jim Crow era.
A Conversation With: Author A. X. Ahmad
Mr. Ahmad on his upcoming mystery novel “The Caretaker,” and HarperCollins’s India initiative to publish a series of mysteries from Indian ...
Siblings Haunted by the Past, and by Afghanistan’s Cycle of Misery
“And the Mountains Echoed,” a multigenerational novel by Khaled Hosseini, explores how characters define themselves through the choices they ...
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Telling It Like It Is
When it comes to how it should be told, each story has a mind of its own.
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Aberrations and Apparitions
The troubles of Tom Drury’s characters seem to stretch back into the inscrutable past, and out into an equally murky future.
Are You My Father?
An unhappy woman discovers a distressing secret in Patrick McGrath’s novel.