“The Golden Honeymoon,” Ring Lardner
Rediscovered: The “audacious,” “charming,” “fully alive” late memoirs of Henry James
“Henry James at Work,” Theodora Bosanquet
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”