Geoffrey O’Brien and Robert Polito on David Goodis, “our most crafty and elegant crime stylist”

Keith Olbermann, Rosemary Thurber, and friends gather to celebrate James Thurber

Forthcoming from Library of America: Summer–Fall 2016

Women Crime Writers: Dolores Hitchens resurgence continues with four new e-books

New York exhibition showcases Lynd Ward as both pioneering graphic novelist and master illustrator

Forthcoming from The Library of America (Winter–Spring 2016)

Alexis de Tocqueville collaboration results in long-running partnership—and now, a special seminar

James Baldwin, resurgent on screen and on the page in 2015

New Abigail Adams volume endowed in honor of Phyllis Lee Levin

Women Crime Writers: Forty books, four pen names, and one enigmatic author

LOA’s Women Crime Writers goes to the movies with week-long New York City series

Photos: No stranger in this Village, James Baldwin recognized with official plaque

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on “an implicit political victory for our people”

Edgar Allan Poe’s “extraordinary nonsense” inspires an ingenious modern art exhibition

Henry James, John Singer Sargent, and the “masterpiece of painting” that survived a meat cleaver attack

Remembering James Tate, 1943–2015: “I love my funny poems, but I’d rather break your heart”