When I was a child, I thought I was the luckiest kid in the world because I got four lullabies sung to me every night -- one each from my mother, father, sister and brother. I can still hear their voi ...

Kate Briggs is reimagining how to write about love. Her first novel, “The Long Form,” begins with Helen and her newborn, Rose, on a play mat, which has already “changed the whole inhabitation of the ...