John Ashbery translates Rimbaud’s Illuminations, “the book that made poetry modern”

John Ashbery and Paul Auster at Brooklyn Book Festival; February House

Loren Eiseley, “Barbed Wire and Brown Skulls”

Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Day Before the Revolution”

Morgan Library exhibition on Henry James beautifully reveals how “the arts are one”

CUNY historian weighs the parallels between Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson

Cautionary tale as catharsis in Ross Macdonald’s The Instant Enemy

Updating a life: The case of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

Gatsby as noir: The genesis of Ross Macdonald’s Black Money

Jane Bowles, “A Stick of Green Candy”

Sara Jaffe: From James Baldwin to Lynne Tillman—four influences on Dryland

Making history, one day at a time: The diaries of John Quincy Adams

Emerson, Agassiz, and the mind of God

Barbara Deming, “Southern Peace Walk: Two Issues or One?”

Library of America announces new leadership in its thirty–fifth year

In a Lonely Place: Film noir as an opera of male fury