Jane Pritchard reads Caio Fernando Abreu’s newly translated “Moldy Strawberries,” originally published in 1982....

Abby Cunniff reviews Jarrod Shanahan’s “Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage,” a look at brutality on New York City’s penal colony....

A bearded man wears a martial-looking mask on his face. It consists of thin metal rods arranged in geometric bracings. The mask appears light and delicate, but seems too small for the man’s head. It squashes his nose flat, cuts ...

Brian Brodeur reassesses the masterful brief narratives of Edwin Arlington Robinson....