One of American fiction’s core preoccupations, these days, seems to be the question of what causes unhappiness. Many of our major writers are earnest anatomists of discontent and its social, ...

Democratic CNN commentator Karen Finney sniped at GOP panelist counterpart Michael Singleton as she attempted to refute his claim that Americans had it better in President-elect Donald Trump’s first ...

First published in 1967, “Don’t Look at Me Like That” follows a young woman from her unpopular teenage years to uncertain adulthood. The author Diana Athill, photographed in 1939.Credit...via Granta ...