Ava Reid's latest novel, "Innamorata," ended with such a twist that the author says she would give a $1,000 to any reader who ...

Problems of the natural world can be addressed through, and only through, mastery and cooperation might seem like a truism, but in Weir's stories, it emerges as an expansively hopeful thesis.

Can you tell the story of the evolution of Western drama in the time it takes to boil a kettle? Arguably not, but it can be instructive to take a step back and ask what the major stepping-stone works ...