Sandra Cisneros, one of America’s greatest writers, says that up until a few years ago, she was over speaking about her 1984 ...

The Norwegian author Linn Ullmann’s new novel pieces together fragments of a trip she took to Paris at the request of a much older photographer.

Stendhal’s “The Charterhouse of Parma” lays out thousands of rules and stratagems for elites trying to stay in the good graces of a powerful and capricious ruler.