Allegra Goodman's new novel is called This Is Not About Us, but critic Maureen Corrigan says that title is coy: Readers are bound to see aspects... This novel about family drama is so good you may ...

Author Allegra Goodman. Courtesy Nina Subin. Inspired by the real life of Marguerite de la Rocque, writer Allegra Goodman’s new novel “Isola” tells the story of the 16th-century orphaned French ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Our February Pick is here, and I can’t stop talking about it!” she wrote in the caption. “Based on a true story, Isola by ...

Troy Edwards tells Ruth Marcus why he left his senior position in the government, and what his father-in-law, James Comey, had to do with it. The Political Scene John Lithgow on the Controversial ...

THE COVER OF ALLEGRA GOODMAN’S The Cookbook Collector is absolutely infuriating. A green and orange still life of a tumble of peaches and a few bunches of grapes, it evokes Jeanette Winterson’s ...

This week’s story, “Ambrose,” is about a sixth grader named Lily, who, as she says at the opening of the story, wants to live in the old days. How hard is it to be a sixth grader in contemporary ...

The book is not a single narrative but a novel of interconnected stories, each laced with irony, poignancy, and hilarity.

Some 20 years ago, a cobweb descended over my right eye. What I thought was a migraine, turned out to be a semi-detached retina. Even saying those words now makes me flinch. I was lucky and my sight ...