Sometimes when I go into a bookstore I don’t find anything on my list. (My list is pretty strange, and it includes many older titles.) I feel strongly about supporting bookstores, however, and I search for something I would like to read. So I found Lydia Millet’s A Children’s Bible. I hadn’t previously heard of it but it was in the speculative section and it wasn’t 400 pages or more. It turns out that it’s set at an indefinite time but it seems to be not too far in the ...