Penelope Fitzgerald and the story of a British family.

Two books on C.S. Lewis remind us that we are endlessly involved with one another.

William Hazlitt, essayist.

Celebrating Wallace Stegner's centenary.

James Fenimore Cooper.

Growing up Pentecostal.

Katherine Anne Porter, "grandchild of a lost War."

Aravind Adiga's 2008 Booker Man Prize-winning novel.

A conversation with Uwem Akpan.

An omnibus volume of Flann O'Brien's novels.

Eliot's Four Quartets

Auden at midcentury.

Meet Dame Frevisse, a 15th-century sleuth.

The new novel by Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago.

With the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski.

William James, Alfred Kazin, and the fate of post-Christian Protestantism.

Shakespeare is the Rorschach test of English literature.

Larry Woiwode's testament.

The charms and annoyances of "collected poems."