Inspired by letters shared between the author’s parents, this debut novel set in the pre-Independence period features educated, empowered and independent women ...

Good Girl,” by the German-born writer Aria Aber, asks what it means to want to belong to a society that wishes you harm.

Great Expectations (1861) in particular demonstrates Dickens’ ludic credentials. A sense of progression is common in the Bildungsroman or “progress” novel, but Pip seems to embody ideas of ...