Anne Tyler's deeply moving new novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, explores three generations of the Whitshank family in Baltimore, exposing the raw nerves, hurt feelings and deep love that bind them ...

“The trouble with dying,” a mother says in Anne Tyler’s new novel, “is that you don’t get to see how everything turns out. You won’t know the ending.” “But, Mom,” replies her daughter, “there is no ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

What makes it so good? Its subject is her most recognizable and essential one, family, its setting again Baltimore, its story told in her customarily sweet, wistful, comic voice. In other words, A ...

>Words like “again” and “another” abound in reviews of Anne Tyler novels, largely because she returns to familiar subjects and themes in her work. In her 20th novel, A Spool of Blue Thread (Knopf), ...

Over the course of 20 novels, Anne Tyler’s artistry has become so assured and invisible that her books often read less like fiction than dispatches from the real world. In such midcareer masterpieces ...

Anne Tyler is back in Baltimore, among the middle-class families that have been her domain for five decades. A Spool of Blue Thread, her 20th novel, is not her best, but it features some characters ...

The feeling of loss permeates Anne Tyler’s new novel like smoke, faintly smudging the page. In “A Spool of Blue Thread” (Doubleday, $25.95, 368 pages), the author’s 20th novel and among her finest, ...

The feeling of loss permeates Anne Tyler's new novel like smoke, faintly smudging the page. In "A Spool of Blue Thread," the longtime Baltimore author's 20th novel and among her finest, the source of ...

“A Spool of Blue Thread” follows four generations of the Whitshank clan, from the grandparents newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s to their children and grandchildren who bring the family into the ...

"A Spool of Blue Thread,'' the newest novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Tyler, is a thoughtful and intriguing study of the role of memory in creating and destroying the stories we tell ourselves ...

There was a time when the favorite way to put down Anne Tyler was to refer to her novels as “middlebrow.” Particularly in the 1980s, a decade of triumphs that began with “Morgan’s Passing” and ...