In Sean Hewitt’s novel, “Open, Heaven,” two isolated boys develop an intense, undefined relationship.

They point to a third bike leaning on the front porch. Chipped neon paint on the rusty frame. Borrowed from a cousin, they ...

Here are two words that might make you swoon with longing or simmer with envy: In an ideal book leave, a person would get paid well enough (from a big old book advance?) to take unpaid leave from ...