Two new novels riff on fairy tales to explore mothers with unusual hungers and daughters trying to survive them.

In “The Annihilation of Fish,” age is the accumulation of scars. Aching memories, unhealed bruises and pent-up desires remain ...

Charles Addams hit me like a meteor when I was around nine years old, and I have a particular affection for the great George ...

Jérôme Sueur’s “Natural History of Silence” and Pico Iyer’s “Aflame” explore the quiet (and the sounds) that sustain us ...