New Jersey marrieds Ben and Vesper Stamper fluttered in from the Sufjan universe. With rich harmonies in the vein of other people who love each other (Low, Mates of State), a raft of parlor ...

Stamper is as gifted a writer as she is an artist: As a member of the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz, Gerta watches new arrivals being sorted: “They become two rivers, one flowing right ...

In an unusual and handsome work of historical fiction, “A Cloud of Outrageous Blue” (Knopf, 308 pages, $19.99), Vesper Stamper conjures a 14th-century England in which such superstitions are ...

The events in Vesper Stamper’s illustrated novel of the Holocaust, “What the Night Sings” (Knopf, 272 pages, $19.99), transpire during a seldom-visited historical moment: the years between ...

Ben and Vesper Stamper are the newest addition to Danielson s Sound Familyre label, and their music is very much a family affair. They are a married couple (of eight years) and contributing to ...