Love amid the treetops: the lyrical abandon of Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan’s Tarzan and Jane

The Incredible Shrinking Man: A cinematic nightmare both all-American and Kafka-esque

Purple Noon: A superior take on The Talented Mr. Ripley

Dark, sexy, funny: What makes Out of Sight the best film version of an Elmore Leonard novel

Faith and faithfulness in John Huston’s Wise Blood

Tinseltown meets the Great White Way: Classic musicals that thrived on stage and screen

The Natural is a sports movie that swings for the fences—and knocks it out of the park

Juanita Nelson, “A Matter of Freedom”

Vanessa Hua: Kindred spirits in the heroines of Little Women and the Little House books

Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, and how to sell a banned book

Tom Sawyer’s Mississippi comes to panoramic full-color life in new Metropolitan Museum exhibition

The career zenith of Elmore Leonard, “the most cinematic novelist in the English language”

John O’Hara: “an important American writer who has been unjustly neglected”

John O’Hara, “Agatha”

Sherwood Anderson, “Unlighted Lamps”

Ursula K. Le Guin, “Imaginary Countries”