Still, when her ballet is at its best, the living blood beats in it; enough to make this book the timeliest of sermons on the greatest human force among the Allies.

Torrey Peters’s collection captures characters with conflicting wants and needs who vacillate between euphoria and shame.

When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby," he imagined the world of splendor and desire that was the Roaring Twenties ...