Megan Evershed

For nearly a year, the men of the Lucerne hotel have seen the worst of the city’s self-described liberal residents. They’ve also exposed a decades-long policy failure in permanent housing.

Why are workers being called back for nonessential work in the middle of a pandemic? Because their bosses can get away with it.

“Long Live the Post Horn!”—the latest novel by Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth—is an acidic portrait of one woman’s fight to save the postal service.

Two books grappling with loss offer strange solace.