Lawrence Joseph's poetry gives form to a beauty that is still somehow possible in our precise and horrible moment.

Emily Ogden, an English professor at the University of Virginia, knows that the 19th century American writer Edgar Allan Poe has a mixed reputation among scholars.

Lawrence Joseph's poetry gives form to a beauty that is still somehow possible in our precise and horrible moment.

Durst Distinguished Lectures in the School of Humanities at Purchase College State University of New York

Emily St. John Mandel’s popular books meet a yearning for post-apocalyptic fiction even as they wonder how to have such a thing

Emily St. John Mandel’s popular books meet a yearning for post-apocalyptic fiction even as they wonder how to have such a thing

Timely questions lurk at the heart of connoisseurship: What counts as originality, what value do we place on it, how do we protect it?

In two great and infinitely strange novels, Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and Quincas Borba, the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis elaborates a philosophy called Humanitism. According to Quincas Bo...

Harriet Clark's debut novel is in explicit conversation with Marilynne Robinson's 'Housekeeping.' Remarkably, it stands up to the comparison.

I first read Fortress Besieged as a teenager, when the novel, originally published in 1947 and out of print for decades, became a bestseller in China

Jim Thompson, the most "titillatingly depraved crime novelist of the twentieth century," penned iconic psychopathic protagonists and redefined the genre of noir.

Plus Rachel Cusk’s “Life of M.”

Harriet Clark's debut novel is in explicit conversation with Marilynne Robinson's 'Housekeeping.' Remarkably, it stands up to the comparison.

Harriet Clark's debut novel is in explicit conversation with Marilynne Robinson's 'Housekeeping.' Remarkably, it stands up to the comparison.

In the last quarter of the 20th century, provocative art came to be leveraged for right-wing political power. We're still dealing with the consequences.

He pokes at the underbelly of American history, and a putrid stench wafts up.

fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me

To read Ben Lerner's 'Transcription' is to feel wobbles and flickers all around you.

As he closes out his Harlem crime trilogy with “Cool Machine,” the two-time Pulitzer winner turns again to the city that made him, and to the private ghosts behind his restless reinventions.

Raphael's art places us at the precise point where humanity and divinity converge.

Raised Catholic, Christopher Beha became a committed atheist and left religion behind. Here, he tells what led him back.

Raphael's art places us at the precise point where humanity and divinity converge.

The explorers’ crossing of the continent is America’s most famous camping trip. What was it all for?

Among twentieth-century British artists, there seemed to be a mad rush to Rome. A new book endeavors to explain this explosion in Catholic conversions.