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 this story about ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Cover art for “Stone Yard Devotional” owned by Riverhead Books. As routinely as the changing of ...

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. - A massive sinkhole has been steadily growing in the yard of a Stone Mountain homeowner, causing increasing concern for the safety of the neighborhood. Angeline Smith, a ...

“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 unnamed, middle-aged ...

Charlotte Wood is the author most recently of “Stone Yard Devotional,” which was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, and other 10 books. Here she takes the Book Pages Q&A. Q. Please tell readers ...

Why would an atheist suddenly leave her whole life– family, friends, home, career– for an indefinite stay with nuns in a cloistered religious community? Perhaps "Stone Yard Devotional" written by ...