The curious life of J. D. Salinger

Somerset Maugham was of one of the most widely read writers of the 20th century.

Arthur Koestler was a man of controversy in death as in life.

Scholars have difficulty categorizing Muriel Spark; she has no identifiable precursors.

The life and work of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

What can the letters of Graham Greene tell us about the man?

What can the letters of Graham Greene tell us about the man?

New and selected stories from Tobias Wolff, reviewed

A review of essays by Anne Fadiman

The urge to reveal ourselves to others is often stifled by prudence One of the rewards of writing novels is that the inner hidden self of an author can be mined brought to the surface and exhibited as fiction As the Joseph Conrad scholar Norman Sherry demonstrates in his authorized biography of