During the pandemic, buffets suffered. Communal dining, germ-vector potential, standing cheek-to-jowl at the trough waiting for a scoop of scrambled eggs: It was downright unappetizing.

Getty Images/iStockphoto The daughter of a Vermont assisted living facility patient noticed that her parent’s missing heirloom jewelry had vanished last year. The family found the jewelry at a ...

“We are all into our nostalgia,” she says, noting how “Art Nouveau reminds us of the lamp in our grandmother’s house that was fancy and beautiful and obviously an important heirloom.

It was a big year for the writer whose publisher used to be Minnesota-based Graywolf Press. “Erasure,” which Graywolf released before Everett’s move to Doubleday, was adapted for the movie ...