Guest blog post by Penelope Niven , author of the forthcoming biography, Thornton Wilder: A Life (HarperCollins) I have the instinctive h...

The National Book Foundation announced this morning that Elmore Leonard will receive the 2012 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to Americ...

“Antietam (called Sharpsburg by the South),” writes James McPherson in Battle Cry of Freedom , “was one of the few battles of the war in whi...

The Aphasia Café by Dawn McGuire (IF SF Publishing, 2012) Dawn McGuire , neurologist and poet, who recently published her third collect...

Caroline Fraser, author of Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution , spoke with us recently about the new publica...

Guest blog post by Michael Gorra , Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College and author of the recen...

On August 21, Noel Polk, professor, literary scholar, critic, and poet, died at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Emeritus Professor of Engl...

Guest blog post by Brooks D. Simpson, professor of history, Arizona State University and co-editor of The Civil War: The First Year On the...

“Lists are like traffic accidents, aren't they? You just can't stop—I mean, you have to stop and look, you know, and you have to rus...

Last year  The Guardian asked twenty-four leading science fiction writers to choose their favorite novel in the genre. Only one book was se...