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Does my first memory of Robert Louis Stevenson's work come from reading one of his stories or poems, or from hearing something of his read aloud? I am not sure [...]

The Letters of Seamus Heaney selected and edited by Christopher Reid; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 848 pp., $45 One St. Patrick's Day in the early 1980s, I met Seamus Heaney [...]

Penelope Fitzgerald was born in 1916 into a distinguished family of Church of England clergy, thinkers, writers, and editors characterized by what her biographer, Hermione Lee, calls 'alarming honesty, caustic [...]

On Jersey Breaks by Robert Pinsky. Among the premier poets of our period, it's hard to think of anyone who has embraced the role of civic poet so wholeheartedly and [...]

The article recounts the life and works of novelist Andrew Lytle. Information is provided about Lytle's memoir "A Wake for the Living," his short story "Mister McGregor" which gives an account of the fight between a slaveholder and his coachman who is a Black man, his historical biography "Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company," and his first novel "The Long Night" which is a story about plantation slavery.