Children’s Books: Maggie O’Farrell’s ‘The Boy Who Lost His Spark’
The novelist Maggie O’Farrell (“Hamnet”) touches on this painful phase in her third book for children, “The Boy Who Lost His Spark,” a lovely read-aloud for children ages 5-9. Young Jem has had to ...
Who Needs Intimacy?
Influential novelists are imagining what women’s lives might look like without the demands of partners and children.