Olive Kitteridge is getting old. She’s just had a heart attack, and her son, Christopher, has made the necessary arrangements for her recovery, setting up round-the-clock homecare. On bedrest, Olive ...

Lovers of literary treasure, rejoice. Elizabeth Strout’s new novel, “Olive, Again,” reprises beloved Olive Kitteridge, the aging, cranky, bossy, wry, flummoxed, sad, brave, lonely anti­heroine of ...

Oprah Winfrey announced "Olive, Again" by Elizabeth Strout as her new book club selection on "CBS This Morning" on Thursday. The sequel to Strout's Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Olive Kitteridge" ...

From its title alone, Olive, Again suggests some of the changes we can expect to see in Strout’s unsentimental, blunt, but highly compassionate protagonist. There might be something apologetic in the ...

“Oh Christ,” says a man named Tom Coombs, looking out the window to see a car pulling into his driveway. “It’s that old bag, Olive Kitteredge. What in hell is she doing here?” Tom’s got it all wrong.

Olive Kitteridge, one of the most indelible characters in literature, made even more famous and beloved by Frances McDormand’s remarkable performance in the HBO miniseries, is back in Elizabeth Strout ...

Prickly but charming, stubborn but open to change, stingy but generous, Olive Kitteridge, with all her nuances and contradictions, can be summed up thusly: “She didn’t like to be alone. Even more, she ...

Olive has gone (slightly) soft. In “Olive, Again,” the engrossing but imperfect sequel to Elizabeth Strout’s 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, “Olive Kitteridge,” the crusty, dour, often ...