“This brilliant anthology is a major contribution to our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance and to the history of the novel in America.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr.
“Rich in atmosphere, authentic in tone, and almost without exception very good stories. It was surprising to me that most Chinese ghosts are not villainous, but are actually the heroes who gave their lives out of duty and remain behind to…
“Perhaps the most provocative graphic storyteller of the twentieth century.”—Will Eisner
“If ever something was made to put a stop to all discussion of the only work you would want to have with you on a desert island, it is this two-volume set.” — The Washington Post
“It is a measure of how well they succeeded that, a half century later, the war comes alive again in these pages.” — The Washington Post
The most comprehensive edition of the hard-boiled crime fiction of Dashiell Hammett ever published
“McCullers’s novels, collected for the first time by The Library of America, are proof yet again that the lesser work of a great author is usually better than the best work of a minor one.”— The Plain Dealer
“His genius, his inspiration in this poem and some others, was to look around the streets, at the billboards and the advertising slogans, and see in those things a language. And he was able to figure out that this language itself contained…