In Adam Johnson’s “The Wayfinder,” a highlight in a strong year of fiction, a young woman on a Polynesian island more than 500 years in the past ponders the significance of a whale that has beached on ...

Literature has a unique way of drawing readers into an imaginary world, making them feel, think, and experience the lives of characters like they’re their own. Fiction transports readers across time, ...

“All great literature can be reduced to two stories: a man goes on a journey, and a stranger comes to town.” This axiom, most often attributed to Leo Tolstoy, speaks to the power of the stories we ...