Wardell Milan’s “Modern Utopia,” on display at Fraenkel Gallery, is an experience akin to combing through an “I Spy” book. As one walks through the gallery’s three-room open floor plan, a scavenger ...

The starting point for this novel was that I wanted to write utopian fiction. I hadn’t done this before: all my previous novels have been straight science fiction. But utopia, the genre that imagines ...