There’s something eerily intimate about reading The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa. It’s the kind of book that lingers quietly ...

The Moscow-born writer Maria Stepanova reflects that she has been working on her book “In Memory of Memory” (New Directions, 432 pages, $19.95) since she was 10 years old, when she made the first ...

These books aren’t just stories—they're interrogations of storytelling itself. They challenge the reader to question what we ...

First, a caveat: "The Memory of Love," Aminatta Forna's elegantly rendered novel of loss and rehabilitation in the aftermath of Sierra Leone's long civil war, is far better than its title suggests.

This Mother's Day, many of us will also be thinking about our grandmothers, great-grandmothers and ancestors. The connection between grandmother and grandchild is at the heart of "Memory Garden," ...