Pamela Erens was for many years an editor of Glamour magazine, and published her first novel, The Understory, in 2007. Her second novel, The Virgins, was released last August by Tin House Books (who also published Karen Shepard...

In The Bellwether Revivals, Oscar Lowe is an odd man out at Cambridge. Though he reads widely in literature and philosophy, he grew up working class on an estate, didn’t go to university, and now works at Cedarwood nursing home...