Charlotte Wood’s novel, a Booker Prize finalist, follows an atheist whose mysterious path led her to live among nuns in a ...

Award-winning author Charlotte Wood discusses her Booker Prize shortlisted novel Stone Yard Devotional at the Jaipur ...

From here, Wood fast-forwards four years. Her protagonist has turned her back on her job, marriage, and friends and made this convent her fixed abode. Her succession of sacrifices has proved damaging: ...

“Stone Yard Devotional," by Charlotte Wood. Riverhead. 297 pages. $28 Given the monastic pacing of Charlotte Wood’s “Stone Yard Devotional,” I suppose it’s appropriate that we’ve had ...

On experimenting in Stone Yard Devotional with how far she could go in making a story that depends on stillness and silence and yet shimmers with energetic force ...

Stone Yard Devotional grew from elements of my own life and childhood merging with an entirely invented story about an enclosed religious community. Writing it during pandemic lockdowns ...

Books discussed: “Stone Yard Devotional,” by Charlotte Wood “Aflame: Learning From Silence,” by Pico Iyer “Onyx Storm,” by Rebecca Yarros ...

Blakeley, who teaches writing at Emory University, didn’t find out about her mother’s arrest until she was an adult herself. ...

This month, pile your nightstand with buzzy literary fiction, a memoir by Bill Gates, a dive into the authors that inspired Jane Austen, and so much more. Here are T&C ’s picks for the best books of ...