The Goodbye Look: The “most unusual story” that brought Ross Macdonald mainstream success

Rejecting Claude McKay: An author’s lost, and last, novel

Mary McCarthy, “The Unspoiled Reaction”

Philip Roth, “Patrimony”

Photos: Library of America goes on the road to Brooklyn Book Festival

Around the corner from the revolution: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish stories

Alexander Hamilton, “Account of a Hurricane”

Free promotions, book signing with Jonathan Lethem highlight LOA debut at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Blake Bailey on “the versatility and breadth of achievement” of Philip Roth’s fiction and the challenge of writing his biography

Dance of the damned: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

John Ashbery translates Rimbaud’s Illuminations, “the book that made poetry modern”

John Ashbery and Paul Auster at Brooklyn Book Festival; February House

Loren Eiseley, “Barbed Wire and Brown Skulls”

Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Day Before the Revolution”

Morgan Library exhibition on Henry James beautifully reveals how “the arts are one”

CUNY historian weighs the parallels between Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson