“Do you have to believe in God to join a religious order?” asks the narrator of Charlotte Wood’s “Stone Yard Devotional.” The question would seem to be rhetorical, since the ...

In Charlotte Wood’s novel “Stone Yard Devotional,” an atheist burrows into herself while staying in a convent, and contemplates how to live without causing harm. Credit...Wesley Allsbrook ...

Given the monastic pacing of Charlotte Wood’s “Stone Yard Devotional,” I suppose it’s appropriate that we’ve had to wait patiently for it. Wood’s fellow Australians have been praising ...

And now, as though publishing were operating by steam ship, “Stone Yard Devotional” has finally arrived in the United States. It’s just as extraordinary as the whispers from abroad suggested.

Award-winning Australian author Charlotte Wood speaks almost meditatively about the fundamental structure of narratives that dictate the plot of her novel Stone Yard Devotional, shortlisted for ...

The novel gets off to something of a false start. When we first meet Wood’s unnamed heroine and narrator, she is turning up at the door of a convent on the barren, windswept Monaro plains of New ...

As far as real-time tactical stealth games go, The Stone of Madness is an artistically singular entity, unique in style but faithful to the mechanics players may expect to find in the genre.

The Stone of Madness is certainly filled with both, painting an eye-catching portrait of secrets and skullduggery as you sneak around, searching for an escape. As the days and nights drag on ...

The Stone of Madness may be set in the 18th century, a full 350 years on from Umberto Eco's masterful monastic mystery The Name of the Rose, yet the game is clearly indebted to the literary ...