In Adam Johnson’s “The Wayfinder,” a highlight in a strong year of fiction, a young woman on a Polynesian island more than 500 years in the past ponders the significance of a whale that has beached on ...

Literature has a unique way of drawing readers into an imaginary world, making them feel, think, and experience the lives of characters like they’re their own. Fiction transports readers across time, ...

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