Wood’s earlier novels contain explicit social critiques, but 'Stone Yard Devotional' does its intellectual heavy lifting at ...

Given the monastic pacing of Charlotte Wood’s “Stone Yard Devotional,” I suppose it’s appropriate that we’ve had to wait patiently for it. Wood’s fellow Australians have been praising ...

Soon, disruptions arrive. "Stone Yard Devotional" was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and I asked the author, Charlotte Wood, to begin by reading a passage where the narrator contemplates the ...

“Do you have to believe in God to join a religious order?” asks the narrator of Charlotte Wood’s “Stone Yard Devotional.” The question would seem to be rhetorical, since the ...