A public toilet cleaner who lives alone, Hirayama has discovered deep meaning and beauty in a life that others would demean or reject.

Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain is a mystical novel, a story in which illness becomes an occasion for a new attention to one’s life and loves.

John Fante's fiction depicted Los Angeles through a penetrating, panoramic gaze—and anticipated the rise of the Beats in American literature.

Jokes were cracked; records were shattered. If you wanted an award show to remind you why you watch television, you got one.

Forgiveness and the need to be forgiven are prominent themes in “The Bear,“ the Emmy-Award-winning show starring Jeremy Allen White.

By focusing on parental grief, “Mass” grounds us in human tragedy even as it touches on the political and social implications of the epidemic of school shootings in the United States.