Acclaimed as a “gifted, courageous writer”( The New York Times), Chris Adrian brings all his extraordinary talents to bear in The Great Night —a brilliant and mesmerizing retelling of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer ...

In the summer of 1863, Gob and Tomo Woodhull, eleven-year-old twin sons of Victoria Woodhull, agree to together forsake their home and family in Licking County, Ohio, for the glories of the Union Army. But on the night of their departure for the w...

The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering—illness, regret, mourning, sympathy—in the most unusual of ways. In “Stab,” a bereaved twin starts a friendship with a homicidal fifth grader...