In the July 14 issue of The New York Review of Books  ( subscription req'd for full article ) Edmund White revisits the work of Paul Bow...

In June 1921 Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. The Columbia trustees praised Wharton’s twelfth nov...

“What most Americans know about [Clarence] Darrow,” Bruce DeSilva wrote recently on The Nervous Breakdown, comes from Spencer Tracy’s heroi...

How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu (Riverhead, 2010) In our continuing series of guest blog posts by writers of fiction, history, es...

The editors of The Guardian this week published what they are calling “ The 100 greatest non-fiction books . . . our list of the very best...

In his bestselling new group biography, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris , David McCullough devotes an entire chapter to the remarkab...

Rosemary Thurber and Keith Olbermann backstage at the 92nd Street Y ( http://twitpic.com/5as68v ) In anticipation of Father’s Day, Kei...

In his LOA interview about American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries , David S. Shields recounted how important literary c...

Guest blog post by Richard Snow, former American Heritage editor-in-chief and author of  A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the ...

“Best of” lists often make us wonder if they exist solely to goad us into generating new and better lists. Many of us love lists, and indeed...