Shirley Jackson, “The Night We All Had Grippe”

Coming attractions: The Booksellers offers a fascinating tour of the rare book world

World War II honor roll: LOA donors dedicate gifts to veterans

John Burroughs, “Wild Life about My Cabin”

A season of vulnerability and hope: On William Carlos Williams’s “Spring and All”

James Thurber: Humor for an age of anxiety

James Thurber, “The Night the Bed Fell”

About what could be: C. D. Wright’s impact on Patrick Johnson’s Gatekeeper

Carolyn Brown, “The VW Years”

Susan K. Harris: The round-the-world trip that made Mark Twain an anti-imperialist

Henry A. May, “Influenza on a Troopship”

For pleasure or as a spiritual discipline, bird-watching is “a lesson in respect and humility”

Kate Chopin, “Cavanelle”

Ring Lardner, “Quick Returns”

New “passion project” documentary Flannery reveals the writer who revealed mysteries

Joseph Warren, “The Bloody Tragedy of the Fifth of March, 1770”