Plus reviews of “Peggy Goes for a Walk,” “The Land of Faraway,” “Aggie and the Ghost” and “The Bear and the Hare and the Fare ...

Frenemies bearing more than a little resemblance to Joan Didion and Eve Babitz circle each other in Ella Berman's Laurel ...

My Oxford Year' author Julia Whelan talks audiobook narration and how romance novels could help voice actors get paid ...

In Gary Shteyngart’s novel, a child in search of her mother has some digital helpers, including her artificial-intelligence chessboard.