American authors

The Possessed

By Joshua Cohen,

Philip Roth reviews his own biographer

Ionic Pixie Dreamboy

By Kurt Vonnegut,

From passages of letters included in Love, Kurt, a collection of messages written between 1941 and 1945 by Vonnegut to his girlfriend Jane, whom he married in 1945, which was…

Anecdote of the Bar

By Robert Frost,

From a letter written by Robert Frost to Wallace Stevens in July 1935, included in The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3, edited by Mark Richardson et al., which will…

Whisperings

By David Means,

A writer alone with the work

Exit Ghost

By Benjamin Taylor,

From a remembrance delivered last May at a memorial service for Philip Roth. Taylor is a professor of writing at the New School. His most recent book, The Hue and…

Literary notes

By Laurence Hutton,