Stories Soft and Mushy: Good for at Least One Cry

In the Gloaming: Stories , by Alice Elliott Dark. Simon & Schuster, 288 pages, $23.

Those of us who think John Updike is as good a critic as he is a novelist, and a good enough novelist to crawl out unharmed from underneath the avalanche of his oeuvre (and survive, too, repeated homicidal hammerings from Read More