Caroline Fraser: Why the Little House books are enjoyed by both children and adult readers
James Thurber, “If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox”
The long, hard-fought campaign that led to The Library of America’s founding
How a Library of America book is born
Edith Wharton, “In the North”
Thomas Mallon: Shut off cable news and read Eudora Welty instead
The Goodbye Look: The “most unusual story” that brought Ross Macdonald mainstream success
Rejecting Claude McKay: An author’s lost, and last, novel
Mary McCarthy, “The Unspoiled Reaction”
Philip Roth, “Patrimony”
Photos: Library of America goes on the road to Brooklyn Book Festival
Around the corner from the revolution: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish stories
Alexander Hamilton, “Account of a Hurricane”
Free promotions, book signing with Jonathan Lethem highlight LOA debut at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Blake Bailey on “the versatility and breadth of achievement” of Philip Roth’s fiction and the challenge of writing his biography
Dance of the damned: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
