Laura Pearson

Resolved to read more books in 2020? Plenty of options await you. From freshly collected Harlem Renaissance-era stories by Zora Neale Hurston ("Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick,"...

Several stories in Laura Adamczyk’s forthcoming collection, “Hardly Children,” are, in fact, peopled with kids — or, as one character calls them, “smaller, more naive adults.” Others feature juvenile-acting grown-ups,...

Homeownership remains central to the American Dream, despite real obstacles for would-be buyers: the rising price of U.S. housing, lingering economic unease following the Great Recession and so on. Owning...