Readers voice outrage over appalling conditions in immigrant detention centers. Also: Paramount’s settlement; political ...

The dystopian “Vera, or Faith” explores how a 10-year-old girl’s family experiences democracy’s slide into fascism.

Illustration by Holly Warburton. Save this ... I say despair in lieu of any other word because I like the weight of it, the way it both sounds and feels.

He categorically rejected despair. I don’t know about you, but I can start to slip into despair if I have a cold that lasts a little too long or if I have too many emails to answer in one afternoon.

Time of the Child takes place in the weeks leading up to Christmas 1962 and opens — and closes — on a set piece of Mass at the parish church, where most of the village gathers. In between lies ...