Roddy Doyle became a literary star with novels like “The Commitments,” “The Van,” and “Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha,” which teemed with exuberant life. But what do you write about when exuberance, and even ...

The daily tally of infections, hospitalizations, deaths — this is one way to measure the pandemic’s toll. Here’s another: Consider COVID’s insidious knack for turning our latent worries into ...

Doyle revisits the subject of his picture book, Her Mother’s Face (2008), with this trim novel about a comforting ghost who helps a family deal with the loss of a loved one. Mary O’Hara, 12, hates her ...