One of the sharpest pleasures of encountering new fiction can come from knowing almost nothing about it, or its author, in advance. In fact it’s often best that way.

A wife wakes her husband up and says,“ I dreamed you brought me the most beautiful diamond earrings. What do you suppose that means? He smiles.“ You'll find out tonight.”.

A wife wakes her husband up and says, "I dreamed you brought me the most beautiful diamond earrings. What do you suppose that means?" ...

Historian James Truslow Adams, who coined the phrase in his 1931 book "The Epic of America," added that the American dream is possible "regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or ...

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As Imperial Russia and Habsburg-ruled Austria-Hungary began to succumb, a small group of Czech and Slovak combat veterans stranded in Siberia saw an opportunity to realize their long-held dream of ...

There’ll be enough to keep everyone engaged in this novel which delves into the meaning and meaninglessness of everyday living with an intensity that can rarely be captured. The Book of Exodus ...

CHICAGO — A Chicagoan who calls herself a lover of words is daring people to dream and not give up on love. Poet Jennifer Ollie’s second book, “Dreams,” is a collection of poems about what ...

Since then, she’s written essays, a memoir and a children’s book. Now, after 12 years, her long-awaited fourth novel, “Dream Count,” arrives. It tells the story of four women — a ...

If the characters of a novel are the product of an author’s dream, writes Unamuno, may not human beings be God’s dream? Man’s profoundest prayer is to continue to exist: “Dream us ...

This was the mid-1980s, and there was no greater incarnation of the Los Angeles dream, as she put it ... From my perch in the state’s middle, I wrote books about California.