Dashiell Hammett, “The Tenth Clew”
“American-original genius” Albert Murray honored with fiftieth anniversary edition of The Omni-Americans
Djuna Barnes, “The Days of Jig Cook”
Kathryn Davis on the novels of Jean Stafford: “She never sentimentalized anything”
Shadow Archives: Scholar experiences “the thrill of literary detective work” in collections of Ellison, Petry, and others
Richard Harvey Cain, “A Nation of Croakers”
“How to be a man who’s not a jerk”: Cartoonist Chris Ware on Charles M. Schulz, Mr. Rogers, and Beethoven
“One backward glance” — Daniel H. Weiss on Michael O’Donnell and the tragic era of Vietnam
Edgar Allan Poe, “William Wilson”
Samuel R. Delany: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Super-Nova