“A panorama that never dwarfs personalities—a demonstration of historical process that is, at the same time, deeply attentive to the human concerns that shaped it.” — The Christian Science Monitor
“The great thing about Henry James is that he is always there to go back to, and when you do go back to him, he is better even than you remembered.”— Los Angeles Times Book Review
“What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind’s fundamental condition—irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.” — Peter Straub “An astounding collection of modern horror.” — Kurt…
“Nothing O’Connor wrote was ever lukewarm. Not a tepid sentence of hers exists…. If I were to be consigned to that mythical desert island with only a bottle of some brand of aspirin and one book, I suspect the Collected…
A century and a half of the best writing about America’s quintessential writer.
“In his brilliant introduction, Edward Hirsch calls the Selected Poems a ‘spiritual autobiography,’ and as we chart Roethke’s development, we share in those moments of sublime ecstasy when boundaries between the self and the…
“Jed Perl has compiled an invigorating panorama of art writing from a crucial quarter century, adding vital context with his incisive commentaries. As today’s art writers suffer diminishing visibility, the pleasure to be had exploring this…
“This is a historic achievement. Kevin Young has given us the most expansive anthology of African American poetry to date, magnificent in its breadth and scholarly in its depth. Including the well-known and the forgotten, this astonishing…
“McClatchy has done yeoman’s work with both selection and editing, and Library of America was right to inaugurate its American Poets Project with Edna St. Vincent Millay. Fashions in literature, like those in couture, keep coming back, as she…