Few stories are more tailor-made for summer than the adventure tale. As a lover of television who also grew up spending my breaks from school at the local library, I've always been on the lookout for ...

Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan’s “Washington Black,” a prizewinning story of race, romance, friendship and identity set in the early 19th century, has been translated by Selwyn Seyfu Hinds and Kimberly ...