James Thurber, “The Day the Dam Broke”

Hollywood book lovers give starry support to LOA’s first Joan Didion volume

Silliness, small stakes, and a compelling other world: Jonathan Franzen pays homage to Peanuts

Jeffrey Colvin: The wide-ranging influences that helped inspire Africaville

David L. Ulin on the early Joan Didion: Dread, disruption, and “a writer responding to her moment”

Mark Twain, “Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims”

LOA members enrich school libraries nationwide

Edith Wharton, “Expiation”

“Humor at first sight” as James Thurber’s art is celebrated for his 125th birthday

Gary K. Wolfe: Reinvention and revolution in 1960s science fiction

Joan Didion, “Quiet Days in Malibu”

Andrew Blauner: The humanity, humility, and humor of Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts

(Re)Introducing R. A. Lafferty, a “Master” for the past, present, and future

Watch: “You’re weird, sir” — or, Peanuts and the politics of personal identity

Harold Bloom’s The American Canon: “He is speaking directly to you about his passions”

Thomas Jefferson’s Education: Alan Taylor on the troubled origins of “Mr. Jefferson’s University”