LUCY BY THE SEA. By Elizabeth Strout. Random House. 288 pages. $28. When Elizabeth Strout’s Lucy Barton got married for the first time, she changed her name. “I did not want to be me anymore. I was ...

Harpswell, Maine — Here, in the Mid-Coast Maine village of her childhood, in a home overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, is where Elizabeth Strout has chosen to install the characters in her new novel, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. "Lucy by the Sea" A novel by Elizabeth Strout Published by Random House, 285 pages, $28 Lucy Barton doesn’t quite grasp what is ...

Strout follows up Oh William! with a captivating entry in the Lucy Barton series. This time, Lucy decamps to rural Maine during the first year of the Covid lockdown. At the pandemic’s onset in 2020, ...

Elizabeth Strout's latest is a chronicle of a plague year — and also of the main character's growing insights into herself, her family, and... Oh Lucy! What were you thinking, fleeing the comfortable ...

Earlier this year I wrote about the inherent — small, but not insignificant — letdown that comes when a sequel arrives for a beloved book, how the update has a difficult time living up to whatever ...

Elizabeth’s Strout’s ninth book, “Lucy by the Sea,” is a haunting reminder of how it feels to have your life capsized by a global pandemic. In crisp, spare prose, Strout returns readers to that first, ...

In “Tell Me Everything,” Bob Burgess deepens his emotional connection with Lucy Barton as he defends a local man accused of killing his mother. By Alexis Schaitkin New York Times readers recommend ...

As I was reading Elizabeth Strout’s new novel, “Tell Me Everything,” I kept thinking about the recent box-office smash, “Deadpool & Wolverine.” Mrs. Biblioracle and I are both moderate fans of the ...