Gregg Sutter on Elmore Leonard’s “dialogue-driven crime novels with an emphasis on character”
Dan Wakefield on Kurt Vonnegut: “If anything he was a counter-counter-culture hero”
Laurence Senelick on the plays of Arthur Miller’s middle phase, experimentalism in theater, and (of course) Marilyn Monroe
Darryl Pinckney: James Baldwin “stood his ground and paid a price”
New York exhibition showcases Lynd Ward as both pioneering graphic novelist and master illustrator
Lewis Dabney on Edmund Wilson, “a storyteller, a master of exposition and compressed intellectual analysis”
August 2010: Editor Art Spiegelman on Lynd Ward: Six Novels in Woodcuts
Charles Baxter on the “moments in any Sherwood Anderson story that you just can’t forget”
Jonathan Lethem on Philip K. Dick: “I call him science fiction’s Lenny Bruce”
Susan Cheever on Louisa May Alcott: “A writer who refused conventional ideas of women’s roles”
Christopher Carduff on the “everyday sublime” of John Updike’s short stories
James Wood: Reality, not realism, in three mid-period Bellow novels
Bill Littlefield on how sportswriter W. C. Heinz listened to athletes—and knew their glory was fleeting
