Michael Dirda is synonymous with the literary life. He’s been called “the best-read person in America,” and it’s easy to ...

His first novel, “Another Roadside Attraction,” was published in 1971 when Robbins was 39 -- more than three decades after ...

It’s a veritable museum of the mundane, a archive of the everyday, a library of lived experiences – all at bargain basement ...

This book is untainted by the dust of academe or of any variety of literary theory ... who fired which gun when — and his innocent pen-pal romance with Ann Scott, also a teenager, while still ...

In fabled cross-country walk from Ohio, Lummis traversed the desert, Cucamonga and Pomona into L.A. 140 years ago this week.

The electronics section is a graveyard of obsolete technology. VCRs, Walkmans, and enough tangled cords to make you question ...

There’s always something slightly uncomfortable about reading other people’s mail, though we’re happy to relax the taboo if the correspondents are famous enough, even more if they’re safely posthumous ...

Janie Crawford’s journey through love, loss, and self-discovery in the early 20th century South is a masterpiece of African ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett’s “James” is up for another literary award — the PEN/Faulkner Prize for fiction. Other nominees include Louise Erdrich’s “The Mighty Red,” Rachel Kushner’s “Creation ...

For two men who built grand worlds of myth and magic, LEWIS AND TOLKIEN is a strikingly intimate and deeply human story—not ...