Djuna Barnes, “The Days of Jig Cook”

Kathryn Davis on the novels of Jean Stafford: “She never sentimentalized anything”

Shadow Archives: Scholar experiences “the thrill of literary detective work” in collections of Ellison, Petry, and others

Richard Harvey Cain, “A Nation of Croakers”

“How to be a man who’s not a jerk”: Cartoonist Chris Ware on Charles M. Schulz, Mr. Rogers, and Beethoven

“One backward glance” — Daniel H. Weiss on Michael O’Donnell and the tragic era of Vietnam

Edgar Allan Poe, “William Wilson”

Samuel R. Delany: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Super-Nova

Constance Fenimore Woolson, “Miss Grief”

Gary K. Wolfe: Reinvention and revolution in 1960s science fiction

Robert Frost, “Christmas Trees”

Nicholas Kristof shifts his focus to the crisis at home: “Attention does make a difference”

Freedom Riders: Terror and profundity in eyewitness history of an epochal era

The children’s literature of Frances Hodgson Burnett: “values that we need and can relate to” today

“Humor at first sight” as James Thurber’s art is celebrated for his 125th birthday

James Thurber, “The Day the Dam Broke”