In a new biography of Robert Stone, Madison Smartt Bell argues that Stone’s career involves both the American dream and the search for meaning.

Reality is messier than than fiction that reduces historical figures like Hillary Clinton to the sum of her most oversimplified virtues and vices.

For Liane de Pougy life was a banquet, and she took seconds of every dish.

Twice a year, America publishes special literary issues devoted in their entirety to the world of literature. In Fall Books 2020, a variety of authors and genres are explored, from fiction to poetry to biography and more.

Published in 2002, ‘Year of Wonders’ is set in a 17th-century English plague town.

Terry Eagleton's new book on tragedy can be a difficult read.