CLEVELAND, Ohio -- When a well-read friend pushed me to read Miriam Toews a decade ago, I ignored the recommendation. A Canadian writer whose novels pulled from her Mennonite background, Toews seemed ...

Miriam Toews’ 2014 novel “All My Puny Sorrows” thrives on the kind of fraught tonal whiplash that comes with the most intimate of relationships to one’s subject. Inspired by the suicide of the ...

I was taken by an examination of reasons for committing suicide, and wanting to die. I hadn’t seen that examination before, and I think it’s three roles that I thought would make for great cinema. And ...

PRISONER: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison ― Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out, by Jason Rezaian. (Ecco, 311 pp., $17.99.) ...

Miriam Toews' emotionally raw bestseller translates awkwardly to the screen, despite heartfelt performances from Alison Pill, Sarah Gadon and Mare Winningham. Miriam Toews’ 2014 novel “All My Puny ...