In Barbara Kingsolver’s rich new novel “The Lacuna,” the artist Frida Kahlo remarks that she would like to think she is being “pulled through history by something more than the force of gravity.” The ...

"Today the lacuna appeared a little below the surface. It's near the center of the cliff, below a knob where a hummock of grass grows out. It should be easy to find again, but best to look early, with ...

It’s been nearly a decade since Barbara Kingsolver’s last novel, “Prodigal Summer,” was published, and her readers have been antsy. “The Lacuna” was certainly worth the wait — it’s her best novel yet.

It's been nine years since Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Poisonwood Bible, has released a new novel — but is The Lacuna worth the wait?... 'The Lacuna,' Kingsolver's Vacant Return The Lacuna is ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

It has been nearly a decade since Barbara Kingsolver’s last novel, “Prodigal Summer,” was published, and her readers have been antsy. Well, “The Lacuna” is worth the wait — it’s her best novel yet.

Sprawling, ambitious but often somewhat impersonal, Barbara Kingsolver 's new novel, The Lacuna, lacks the warmth and sweetness of Prodigal Summer and the staggering, tragic brutality of The ...

Barbara Kingsolver’s latest novel — a sweeping narrative of utopian dreams and political reality — begins with a 13-year-old and his mother huddling together in fear on a Mexican island. The ...

Barbara Kingsolver, of Poisonwood Bible and Lacuna fame, requested her publisher not to be too explicit about a major plot point of her new novel, Flight Behavior (HarperCollins), in which a fearsome ...

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Lev Trotsky. The Mexican painter whose flamboyant art and mangled body continue to nourish a multimedia industry. The adored husband 21 years her elder, myth-making muralist ...