The “tragedy of desire” in An American Tragedy and A Place in the Sun

The poem for a winter storm: “Snow-Bound” by John Greenleaf Whittier

Photos: Debut novelist Kevin Morris gives John Updike his “beautiful due”

Photos: Robert Lowell’s Boston commemorated on his 100th birthday

Sarah Manguso: Thoreau, Annie Dillard, William Maxwell, and “lessons of constraint” on 300 Arguments

Walt Whitman, “Death in the School-Room”

Jane Bowles, “East Side: North Africa”

Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina, and the romance of crime in Band of Outsiders

Nick Norwood: What Carson McCullers knew about cotton mills and misery

Carson McCullers, “The Great Eaters of Georgia”

Reflections in a Golden Eye: a “hothouse tale” of desire and simmering violence

New LOA collection reveals Carson McCullers as “much more than a novelist”

All-American loneliness and “a universe of yearnings” in The Member of the Wedding

Kate Chopin, “Fedora”

Emily Dickinson exhibition reveals a human being behind the literary enigma

Shanthi Sekaran on time and received magic: Beloved’s gifts to Lucky Boy