Clearly drawn from real life, Sea of Tranquility never feels too self ... yet the colonies arrive so fully formed that their background feels incomplete. Aside from a mention of the Chinese ...

In Sea of Tranquility, named after the "silent flatlands" on the ... with violin music playing against a background of incomprehensible noise. He stumbles back to the beach, vomits, and encounters a ...

When I turned to the table of contents in Emily St. John Mandel’s latest novel, "Sea of Tranquility" (Knopf, 272 pp., ★★★★ out of four), I started to worry. It begins in 1912 ...

“The Sea of Tranquility” offers a multiverse in which characters from “The Glass Hotel” (2020) reappear and are given new storylines. Mandel did something similar in “The Glass Hotel ...

“Sea of Tranquility,” Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel, demanded that I read it all in one day. There are few things more exhilarating (to me, at least) than tearing through a book because it’s just ...

Could our entire planet be due for reconfiguration? Certainly. For as one character in Ms. Mandel’s novel “Sea of Tranquility” points out: “No star burns forever . . . the world will ...