The poem for a winter storm: “Snow-Bound” by John Greenleaf Whittier
Photos: Debut novelist Kevin Morris gives John Updike his “beautiful due”
Photos: Robert Lowell’s Boston commemorated on his 100th birthday
Sarah Manguso: Thoreau, Annie Dillard, William Maxwell, and “lessons of constraint” on 300 Arguments
Walt Whitman, “Death in the School-Room”
Jane Bowles, “East Side: North Africa”
Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina, and the romance of crime in Band of Outsiders
Nick Norwood: What Carson McCullers knew about cotton mills and misery
Carson McCullers, “The Great Eaters of Georgia”
Reflections in a Golden Eye: a “hothouse tale” of desire and simmering violence