In spite of everything, the setting continues to compel me, as does the puzzle of Flores’s fiction, which frames the South Texas border region as a territory both physical and chimerical. On the one ...

The august scholar has two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Humanities Medal. In “The Stained Glass Window,” he seeks to ...

Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson’s “Girl From the North Country” and its passage through Broadway’s ...