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 ...

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 ...