Queen Esther, the story’s heroine ... out about the challenges of being a woman in Judaism. I didn’t want to draw attention to my flaws or leave open a space for people to critique me ...

In John Irving's next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud's, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed ...

The novelist John Irving is famous for telling stories set in his native New England and in Austria, the site of a pivotal ...