“Python’s Kiss” collects a baker’s dozen stories, nine of which previously have been published in the New Yorker and elsewhere (each is illustrated with a drawing by the author’s daughter, Aza Erdrich ...

Louise Erdrich was getting help with her computer when her daughter discovered something on the hard drive. A short story. “‘Love of My Days’ was a forgotten file in my computer, and when I found it ...

“Python’s Kiss” collects a baker’s dozen stories, nine of which previously have been published in the New Yorker and elsewhere (each is illustrated with a drawing by the author’s daughter, Aza Erdrich ...

In my Boston Globe review of Louise Erdrich’s 2016 novel “LaRose,” I described her as “an artist of the liminal.” “Python’s Kiss,” Erdrich’s new collection of stories written over 20 years, testifies ...

Beckoning audiences on a whimsical jaunt to always look on the bright side of life, the touring revival of “Spamalot” is especially winning for its unabashed determination to deliver on all manners of ...

Mark Haddon, the best-selling author of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” was an anxious and depressed child. He was afraid of sharks and airplanes, getting sucked into escalators ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our ...

Here is a suggestion for director Marc Bruni, scriptwriter Kait Kerrigan and the entire creative team behind the Roaring Twenties musical that launched its national tour Wednesday night from the ...

With this week’s announcement of massive cuts at The Washington Post, the paper’s Book World supplement earned a dismal distinction: It may be the only newspaper book-review section to have been ...

If you go What: David Guterson will talk about his latest novel, “Evelyn in Transit,” with Jess Walter on the Northwest Passages stage. When: 7 p.m. Feb. 5 Where: Gonzaga’s Myrtle Woldson Performing ...

Nietzsche said God is dead, but skimped on details of how we’d deal with the corpse. The debut novel from Van Jensen, a veteran comic-book writer, develops this unusual premise in a surprisingly ...

Barney Rosset risked violence and insolvency so that his Grove Press could print unexpurgated American editions of such forbidden works as “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” in 1959 and “Tropic of Cancer” in ...