First published in England in 1996, this darkly humorous, surrealistic rendering of a primal family drama is also an unsettling postmodern portrait of the hurt and rage of adolescence.

For the writer Deborah Levy, the piercing wail of ambulance sirens was a pervasive soundtrack of the early pandemic, an unfortunate consequence of living between two hospitals in London. Levy turned ...

In the early days of the pandemic, it became harder for us to see one another. The human face, the ultimate marker of individuality, what the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas called “the first disclosure, ...

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