In Daniel Mason’s charming “Country People,” a stuck father and his happier family are tempted, and changed, during a stint on a bucolic campus. By Alexandra Jacobs “The Simp,” by Roshan Sethi, is a ...

The birds are particularly vulnerable to high temperatures, and France’s torrid June took a heavy toll. By Chico Harlan and Léontine Gallois Bill Frist, a surgeon who also served as Senate majority ...