Hurtling through the sky, with nothing below you, apart from 40,000 feet of thin air may feel like a dangerous place to be, but when it comes to traveling in a commercial airplane, it’s by no means ...

Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press) Vuong, a Vietnamese American poet, won great acclaim with his first novel, “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.” His latest is sent in East Gladness, Conn., where a ...