On Her Birthday, In Praise of Edith Wharton's Acerbic Pen

We Don't Need Another Book About How Much You Love Reading

The Doris Lessing I Knew: Young, Passionate, and Struggling to Keep It Together

Herman Melville Got No Respect

Dave Eggers's Overwrought Paranoia

From the Stacks: "Holden Caulfield Goes to Law School"

From the Video Vault: Ray Bradbury on Writing Persistently

From the Stacks: “Ulysses”

From the Stacks: “Homage to Thomas Mann”

This Is the Summer of Lovecraft

From the Stacks: “A Girl in Winter”

From the Stacks: “‘The Melancholy Bull’”

From the Stacks: "Conrad After Five Years"

From the Stacks: “The Significance of Herman Melville”

From the Stacks: "Emily and Her Sisters"

Orhan Pamuk Reading Guide

From the Stacks: “Why Coleridge?”

The L.A. Review of Books Declares War on the N.Y. Review of Books

'Heaven is For Real': Fiction or Nonfiction?

And the Award for Most Insufferable Author Goes to...