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The European émigré who became a philosopher of American cinema.

The unconventional story of three women and their unconventional lives in the early twentieth century.

The merger of Penguin and Random House is part of a trend that has been deadly for literary authors and serious nonfiction.

How the American Moses became America’s first spiritual manager in the wilderness of Scripture-infused capitalism.

Did postwar population transfers complete a project of ethnic cleansing started by Hitler?

Louis Glück’s poems aim to get to the bottom of her experience without making an idol of “reality” or brute suffering.

For all the ways it is rife with tenderness, fury and ugliness, William Faulkner’s fiction is stubbornly persistent in its artistry.

Edward P. Jones’s characters know that everything they’ve worked for might suddenly be taken from them.