At the beginning of the year, the equivalent of an eighth of Los Angeles burned down, an unfathomable amount. Like many in Los Angeles, the fires have left me physically unscathed but heartbroken f…

The Irish author on Enid Blyton at bedtimes, discovering Dickens, and the brilliance of Edna O’Brien

In Irish novelist Niall Williams’ “Time of the Child,” an abandoned baby changes the lives of the village doctor, his daughter, and the townspeople.