In his introduction, Joseph Epstein offers a broad definition of literary genius: “Timelessness, grandeur of vision, originality of outlook—all these in concert and worked at a high power comprise ...

Twenty-five years ago, Mike Mansfield lost track of his college pal Robert Gilmore. “Whenever I’d be in a bookstore, I’d check the science fiction-thriller sections to see if he’d been published,” ...

Pity the writers of 19th-century Russia. Already hounded by critics and censors, they faced another dogged source of scrutiny: psychiatrists. This new audience of mind readers not only sought case ...

If there were, indeed, any "good times" in Orth Stein's tortured 39-year life, they must have been his childhood in Lafayette between 1862 and 1879, when he first took up newspaper work on the Courier ...

Among members of my family, the word bath is pronounced “baff.” It’s not that we have some hereditary speech defect or obscure regional accent. It’s because at one point or another, we all read Donald ...