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As a novel, the coming-of-age story was arguably the first Western to subvert the genre's morally certain, decades-old formulas.

As a novel, the coming-of-age story was arguably the first Western to subvert the genre's morally certain, decades-old formulas.

As a novel, the coming-of-age story was arguably the first Western to subvert the genre's morally certain, decades-old formulas.

The gritty, Colorado-set novel "Butcher's Crossing" comes to life thanks to director Gabe Polsky and star Nicholas Cage

Edwin Frank is known for being the founder and editor of the New York Review Books Classics series. He is also an author in his own right, with a book

In her new novel set at a headache clinic, The Pain of Pleasure, the author explores how pain does (and does not) define us. Here, she tells Esquire how storytelling can be a kind of remedy.

Center City Philadelphia will finally have a new bookstore, after a rocky pandemic when indies closed and Barnes & Noble shuttered its Rittenhouse location.

I translated Vasily Grossman's epic about Stalingrad. Now an American journalist is reading it as a political prisoner in Russian jail.

Echoes is the opinion section of TheBostonPilot.com. The Boston Pilot is a daily news Catholic newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts, covering news and opinion about the Catholic Church and Catholic life. We carry daily news from Boston, New England, US, the Vatican, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Central and Latin America. The Boston Pilot is part of the Pilot Media Group, Americas oldest Catholic newspaper and the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston.

You think you know the place you grew up in but then a novel comes along that makes you see it with new eyes.