“A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara “A Little Life” is a big commitment, but not for obvious reasons. At 720 pages, Hanya Yanagihara’s second novel (after 2013’s “The People in the Trees”) is compulsively readable. Yanagihara casts a potent spell, crafting characters for whom we care and ache and who always seem to be a page-flip away from slipping through...