Stifled yearnings and bittersweet small-town comedy in Alice Adams
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “A show of wax-figures”
Liza Wieland: From Dickinson to Mary Oliver, a lineage of poets behind Paris, 7 A.M.
The Forties we thought we knew: Facing the Abyss with George Hutchinson
Forthcoming: Fall 2019
Rick Atkinson on Cornelius Ryan’s “vivid, visceral, riveting” histories of World War II
Wendell Berry: My literary friendships
Watch: Why Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day isn’t “victors’ history”
Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Bouquet”
Sanford Schwartz on the “emotional rightness and believability” of Pauline Kael’s film criticism