The author of an exhaustive two-volume biography, he was “fanatical about his approach to scholarship and infatuated with ...

Relax and recharge at these spots that inspired great American writers throughout history.

In the end, “Pressure” serves as tribute to the men and women who stood strong in the face of the greatest threat to democracy the world has ever faced.

David S. Reynolds' book examines the twin legacies of the Mayflower, which carried the Pilgrims to Plymouth in 1620, and the ...

Charles Brockden Brown’s work addressed the violence, psychological torment and corruption that Americans faced in urban ...

Democrats like Rahm Emanuel are still trying to diagnose what truly went wrong with their party, yet they don’t want to claim responsibility for enabling what led to their defeated state in the first ...

Happy 250th birthday, America! I’m also celebrating 50 years of ink-stained wretchery in the very same publication that saw ...

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...

HAWTHORNE’S SHORT STORIES—(422 pp.)—Edited by Newton Arvin—Knopf ($3). It has been 80-odd years since Nathaniel Hawthorne died, but the mystery of his life has never been completely explained. One ...

As both a practitioner and student of fiction. I have long noted the disconnect between artistic and commercial success, a topic I have touched upon before. So let’s take another look, this time ...

According to Google, author Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most famous work, “The Scarlet Letter,” is still taught in high schools across the nation. How today’s youthful readers respond to the dark shadows of ...

Try this short quiz to see how many locations you remember from your reading. By J. D. Biersdorfer In “The Sinners All Bow,” Kate Winkler Dawson brings a podcaster’s instincts to a 19th-century murder ...