Douglas Stuart’s new novel depicts a young man’s fraught homecoming to an inhospitable place
In Douglas Stuart’s John of John, a complicated father-son story plays out against the dramatic backdrop of Scotland’s windswept Western Isles. Stuart will discuss the novel at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 4.
Book Excerpt: Newsman
A long walk with Walt Whitman
Colm Tóibín’s new story collection depicts characters who rebuild their lives after devastation
Personal troubles reflect culture-wide crises in Patrick Strickland’s A History of Heartache
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