Although there is something almost oxymoronic about its title, The Irish Proust makes a strong case for the existence of such ...

Plus Philip Stead’s “A Potion, a Powder, a Little Bit of Magic” and Kate DiCamillo’s “Orris and Timble.” ...

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in the dirt and stories passed around the fire, and sometimes, those stories ...

Journey to the West’s most well known character is arguably Sun Wukong, the monkey king who joins the monk on his pilgrimage to retrieve sacred buddhist texts in the Chinese novel. For English ...