In New York, starry names highlight a 100th birthday party for Shirley Jackson
“The Urgent Necessity,” George Washington and John Adams
Editor Joyce Carol Oates on the enduring spell of Shirley Jackson
Harold Holzer on The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now
Katherine Anne Porter’s “unflinching account of the human condition”
Reinhold Niebuhr, Barack Obama, and the sense of a reality that “judges yet forgives”
Sarah Weinman on Women Crime Writers: “They had their own stories to tell . . . in distinct, sometimes ruthless ways”
“A Pair of Silk Stockings,” Kate Chopin
Geoffrey O’Brien and Robert Polito on David Goodis, “our most crafty and elegant crime stylist”
Robert Polito on the “melancholy and yearning” of David Goodis, who “always seems poised for rediscovery”
Keith Olbermann, Rosemary Thurber, and friends gather to celebrate James Thurber
“Nature Near Home,” John Burroughs
“Writing a War Story,” Edith Wharton
Arthur Miller at 100: a “loving embrace of humanity’s frailties”
“Ordeal in Levittown,” David B. Bittan
Forthcoming from Library of America: Summer–Fall 2016