Mindy Aloff: “Most writers . . . are fascinated by dancing”
Mark Greif on the new Bellow bio, for @nytimesbooks: "The vein that successfully keeps one focused on Bellow, and enchanted, is the novelist’s excerpted prose.... Not just in the novels and stories, but in letters to every sort of addressee"
Ruthanna Boris, “I Remember Balanchine”
John Updike, Pennsylvania, and “the matter of America”
Forthcoming: Fall 2019
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom recasts the life of one of our major literary figures
