Sunday’s letters featured a writer who characterized the current Farmer’s Market location as a “negative space” unless a parking garage occupied with a library and retail and housing fills ...

“Negative Space” by Gillian Linden is a triumph of voice, specifically in its use of deadpan. “Deadpan” as a term first appeared in the early 20th century as a compound word meant to ...

A few years ago while visiting the MoMA, I encountered a painting titled “I and the Village” by Marc Chagall. What I found fascinating about the piece was the lack of negative space; scanning ...

Gillian Linden’s slim debut novel, “Negative Space,” explores the being and nothingness of modern motherhood. By Lynn Steger Strong Lynn Steger Strong is the author of “Flight,” among ...

For parents, entering Gillian Linden’s debut, “Negative Space” (W.W. Norton, 176 pages, $26.99), will be a little like returning to an uneasy, half-remembered dream. The short, subtly ...