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Summer is practically here and, with it, the growing desire to lose yourself between the breeze of turning pages.

In Michael Farris Smith's seventh novel, "Salvage This World," a ray of hope shines through the bleak landscape and gritty storytelling.

A religious con woman, old grudges and nonstop hurricanes threaten the characters in Michael Farris Smith’s novel “Salvage This World.”

Paulina Bren, Two Roads, $32.99 The Barbizon residential hotel for women opened in 1928 and became a mecca for young women across the US – often in pursuit of artistic careers. Women could feel safe in the heart of New York. Men weren’t allowed past the lobby, but Grace Kelly – a pre-fame resident – found ways around that.The list of women who lived there over most of the century is imposing. For Sylvia Plath, who set her novel The Bell Jar there, it was a disturbing experience. To the young Joan Didion it was her introduction to the Big Apple and the writing life. The st...

Gatsby gets new life, but not in a way Fitzgerald might have imagined We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement It is one of the most famous last paragraphs in modern literature. F. Scott Fitzgerald ended The Great Gatsby with these memorable words: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” And that, you would think, was that. Only Gatsby is not being borne ceaselessly into the past. In fact this year, with the novel freshly out of copyright in the US, it is being borne cea...