Ken Kalfus, author of the new novel "Equilateral," has woven a tale that is both fantastical and believable. He's done it not just with an expansive imagination and sharp writing skills, but a ...

Whenever I hear people lamenting the fundamental irrationality of human beings, as is increasingly common these days, I like to recall the fact that we currently have a robot the size of a Land Rover ...

In his slim but beguiling novel Equilateral, Ken Kalfus places us inside the heads of his characters with such deftness that the line between what is true and what they believe to be true fades to ...

Ken Kalfus, author of the new novel “Equilateral,” has woven a tale that is both fantastical and believable. He’s done it not just with an expansive imagination and sharp writing skills, but a ...

In the remote Egyptian desert towards the end of the 19th century, almost a million Arab peasants are digging a giant equilateral triangle. It is swelteringly hot and back-breaking work: each side of ...

That so much fiction has lately been set in Victorian times may owe something to a desire to correct the period’s prejudices and blind spots, whether sexual (as in the novels of Sarah Waters) or ...