Down the Nightmare Alley: A noirish dance of shadow and light
Louisa May Alcott, “My Girls”
Unforgettable lonely boy James Dean carries East of Eden on his narrow shoulders
Edward Lucas White, “Lukundoo”
With It’s All One Case, a designer and collector has Ross Macdonald covered
Indignation: Roth, repression, and rebellion in the early Fifties
When it’s okay to stray from the source: No Way Out resets The Big Clock
Stephen Crane, “Four Men in a Cave”
Julie Buntin: Liberated by Lorrie Moore’s Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
A. Scott Berg: World War I and the end of American isolationism
William T. Hornaday, “The Bird Tragedy of Laysan Island”
Henry James, “Miss Gunton of Poughkeepsie”
Watch: Alec Baldwin reads Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America
Library of America announces World War I and America grants for 65 organizations in 36 states
Ellen N. La Motte, “Alone”
Maverick morality and intellectual passion: Thomas Mallon on Mary McCarthy’s fictions
