“The superb dramatic structure he gives his novels carries full weight of their social implications; his suspenseful plots are vehicles of moral suspense. The intensity of his human concern has found its form, so suited to his demands and so…
“This major book, the first collection from The Library of America by a living poet, offers a view of Ashbery’s artistic development over many decades…. He is, according to both his admirers and his critics, the towering…
“Cooper was always an outdoor influence: he is perennial fresh air, pure seas; a living accuser of our civilization. Our civilization is anyhow a morbid one—introspective, consciously sinful. But Cooper maintained his independence, manhood,…
“Amid the flood of books marking the centennial of women’s suffrage, this anthology stands out for its scope and authority. . . . Essential for libraries and a go-to book for anyone seriously interested in women’s suffrage in…
“To have all these novels in one place is the best gift any reader could ever ask for.”—Junot Díaz
“Carey McWilliams, that muckraking California journalist whose 1929 biography of Bierce remains the most astute assessment of the man and the writer, wrote hopefully, ‘Only one thing . . . is needed to insure Bierce’s place in American and…
“He was a Gothic romancer, a child of the European literary age, whose subject matter, in many of his best works, was quintessentially American—the rock-hewn theocracy of Puritan New England a century and a half before his…