'The Cemetery of Untold Stories' reads like a novel made up of all the stories that Julia Alvarez no longer wants to carry in bits and pieces in her head,. And Alvarez knows that we all are—and need to be—story creatures.

‘Lolita’ may have been canceled, but Vladimir Nabokov remains the godfather of modern prose.

A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it as often as I can for my introductory poetry students. 

Much ink has been spilled over this presidential election—but not nearly as much as was used in a long history of presidential memoirs and biographies.

Vinson Cunningham's constant application of a critical eye in his work for The New Yorker must have helped in composing his first novel, "Great Expectations."

Few writers have ever captured in fiction the American religious sense that underlies so much of our history more than Willa Cather.