‘Talking to Strangers’ looks at the harm that comes when we fail to understand one another.

Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace and Richard Ford are enshrined in the white literature pantheon, beloved for their prose, even if their narratives exclude people of color. In his earnest and ranging essay collection, “White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination,” Jess Row, a white writer who dealt with race in his 2015 novel, […]

JP Delaney’s third psychological thriller, ‘The Perfect Wife,’ puts – almost perfectly – a high-tech spin on the stories of Frankenstein and Pygmalion with a tinge of ‘The Stepford Wives’