novel

Just because some advice was unhelpful or counterproductive during a global pandemic — school closures being an oft-cited example — does not mean that a novel virus is safe to breathe in.

The trains no longer felt like a novel escape—they were starting to feel comfortingly familiar.

We are quick to discard the familiar in favor of the novel.

In her 1958 novel “The Best of Everything,” about a group of young women navigating office life, Rona Jaffe spends a lot of time discussing clothes and how they augur success or failure.

Gaddis captures something that most novels about business don’t: that work is about talk.