Jane Bowles, “East Side: North Africa”

Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina, and the romance of crime in Band of Outsiders

Nick Norwood: What Carson McCullers knew about cotton mills and misery

Carson McCullers, “The Great Eaters of Georgia”

Reflections in a Golden Eye: a “hothouse tale” of desire and simmering violence

New LOA collection reveals Carson McCullers as “much more than a novelist”

All-American loneliness and “a universe of yearnings” in The Member of the Wedding

Kate Chopin, “Fedora”

Emily Dickinson exhibition reveals a human being behind the literary enigma

Shanthi Sekaran on time and received magic: Beloved’s gifts to Lucky Boy

H. L. Mencken, “The Diary of a Retreat”

Amitava Kumar: Philip Roth teaches me to be a bit more honest

Annie Liontas: Influences, identity, and what defines the “self-respecting immigrant novel”

Edith Wharton, “The Pelican”

Millicent Dillon: “the originality and emotional power” of Jane Bowles

Library of America spoken here: Inside the Libreria Internazionale Luxemburg in Turin, Italy