Holiday Gift Guide: The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai

With a release this close to Christmas, it can’t help but feel like a gift, especially since The Artist of Disappearance (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) feels like a special treat from this deeply accomplished author. She gives us here not one story, but three in the form of a trio of perfectly executed novellas: “The Museum of Final Journeys,” “Translator Translated” and the title story, “The Artist