Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. Lena Schilling, the youngest lawmaker in ...

Alan Hollinghurst has a well-earned reputation as one of the great stylistic writers of our time. If this praise sounds overly exuberant, consider the beguiling opening paragraph from a prior novel, ...