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