If someone were forced to name only one Irish writer, the chances are quite good that this would be the name most frequently cited. Joyce is best known for his (sometimes mammoth) novels like Ulysses ...

Then: His favorite writer. Now: “So earnest, so didactic, so humorless.” His own new novel is “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother).” Credit...Rebecca Clarke Supported by “I’m at ...

This post was updated Feb. 22 at 7:22 p.m. Katie Kitamura explored the tension between authorial intent and interpretation in her book talk Thursday. Kitamura – the award-winning author of “Intimacies ...