'Monkey: Journey To The West,' a nine-act opera adaptation performed at the Chatelet Theater in France. Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/French Select via Getty Image One summer afternoon in the late 1980s, ...

What do you do when a book — a classic, no less, and one beloved by millions of readers — proves disappointing? I had expected to love “Monkey King,” the new translation and abridgment by Julia Lovell ...

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