A searing look at life on the street

Lucia Berlin defies our expectations for “grim” working-class fiction

Celebrating 100 years of “Prufrock”

Why we're all eating high-energy foods made for soldiers

At 99, George Braziller surveys his publishing empire in a new memoir

Helen Phillips’s novel evokes the menace of mundane work

Harper Lee’s juvenilia sprouts a literary industry

Jonathan Franzen’s reckoning with his literary inheritance

Understanding Clarice Lispector’s strange and surreal fiction

Interest in Joan Didion's personal life—and her personal belongings—has become insatiable.

The lost works of Joan Didion, Marilynne Robinson, and other great writers

Mary Badham, who played Scout Finch in the 1962 film "To Kill A Mockingbird," reads from Harper Lee's newest novel

Alice Goffman's acclaimed book "On the Run" tells a compelling story. But can we trust it?