The letters in this collection, published here for the first time and edited by Clark (The American Vision of Robert Penn Warren), span a decade in the life of the critic, poet and novelist Warren Continue reading »
Sixty Years of American Poetry: Celebrating the Anniversary of the Academy of American Poets updates the 1984 anthology published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Academy. Here, 75 poems by Continue reading »
These 13 magisterial literary essays, dating from 1942 to 1973, by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and novelist Warren, contain sevenon Coleridge, Conrad, Faulkner, Frost, Hemingway and Melvillethat were Continue reading »
For those overwhelmed by the recent Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren, the editor of that volume, Brandeis professor of English John Burt, has culled The Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren. As Continue reading »
Somers (Stay Up with Hugo Best) offers a wry and ingenious tale of marital infidelity. Cora and Eliot live in the Hudson Valley with their two small children. Having moved there Continue reading »
Majumdar (A Burning) spins a luminous story of a family facing climate catastrophe and food scarcity in near-future Kolkata. It revolves around a mother known only as Ma, who Continue reading »
The discovery of a woman’s body in an English bog kicks off the piercing latest from North (Outlawed). It’s 2018 and American forensic scientist Dr. Agnes Linstrom is tasked Continue reading »
Thammavongsa, author of the Giller-winning story collection How to Pronounce Knife, crafts a stunning portrait of a solitary woman. Ning, a “family of one” at 42, lives in a Continue reading »