Not all adventures are for the books. Some, like “Water Moon,” were destined for poetry and illustrated dreamscapes. Samantha Sotto Yambao’s fifth novel leaves readers with plenty of thought-provoking ...

The literary landscape of the 21st century seems more and more divided when it comes to one particular aspect: plot. Some books have it; others don’t. The have-nots have gotten a lot of critical ...

“Have any of you ever encountered an obstacle that you later understood to be an opportunity?” the unnamed narrator of Avigayl Sharp’s Offseason, a raucous debut, asks her class. “Trauma can be an ...