“Genius Loci,” Clark Ashton Smith

“How to Cure a Cold,” Mark Twain

“Kate’s Choice,” Louisa May Alcott

Alexis de Tocqueville collaboration results in long-running partnership—and now, a special seminar

James Baldwin, resurgent on screen and on the page in 2015

Jonathan Lethem on Philip K. Dick: “I call him science fiction’s Lenny Bruce”

New Abigail Adams volume endowed in honor of Phyllis Lee Levin

Women Crime Writers: Forty books, four pen names, and one enigmatic author

Karen Russell on how Joy Williams writes the unspeakable

LOA’s Women Crime Writers goes to the movies with week-long New York City series

Geoffrey O’Brien: The House of Walworth, American Gothic, and Gilded Age literature

Maggie Nelson: American classics that influenced the writing of The Argonauts

Photos: No stranger in this Village, James Baldwin recognized with official plaque

Susan Cheever on Louisa May Alcott: “A writer who refused conventional ideas of women’s roles”

Christopher Carduff on the “everyday sublime” of John Updike’s short stories

James Wood: Reality, not realism, in three mid-period Bellow novels