Maverick morality and intellectual passion: Thomas Mallon on Mary McCarthy’s fictions
New LOA collection reveals Carson McCullers as “much more than a novelist”
Millicent Dillon: “the originality and emotional power” of Jane Bowles
William Cronon: The life, power, and magical prose of Loren Eiseley’s science and nature writing
Todd Tietchen: “It took a while for literary culture to catch up with what Kerouac had accomplished”
The career zenith of Elmore Leonard, “the most cinematic novelist in the English language”
John O’Hara: “an important American writer who has been unjustly neglected”
James Shapiro on how American attitudes toward Shakespeare keep changing
Jed Perl: how the lives of visual artists were “woven together with the lives of novelists, poets, and intellectuals”
Lawrence Rosenwald: War No More demonstrates “remarkable vitality and diversity” of American antiwar writing
David Bordwell pays homage to the “daredevil criticism” of four pioneering film writers
Editor Bill McKibben on American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
“Remember the Ladies”: Edith Gelles on the incomparable letters of Abigail Adams
Against American exceptionalism: Gordon S. Wood on John Adams
Gordon S. Wood: How the American Revolution “infused into our culture our noblest ideals and highest aspirations”
Robert Polito: The one-of-a-kind “film investigations” of Manny Farber
