"The Prophets," by Robert Jones Jr. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 400 pages, $27) In his debut novel, “The Prophets,” Robert Jones Jr. ambitiously reimagines a past in the antebellum American South and ...

“A long, long time ago, maybe twenty or so years ago, I told myself that even if you have one page about a person eating his lunch you should have a history in your head,” the author Edward P. Jones ...

I spend a lot of time with women in their 80s and 90s. Most weeks, my mother, her two close friends, and I make our way to the coffee lounge at their senior living community. Sometimes other women ...