Dubus was an irascible, loyal, loving, smoking, hard-drinking, hard-punching, tender man, who demanded much of himself and others.

Andre Dubus III is the author of House of Sand and Fog and a memoir, Townie. A complete collection of his father’s short stories has just been published.

Three recent books on Thoreau, prompted by the the 200th anniversary of his birth, deepen our understanding of him.

Frank Freeman reviews "The Mountains of Parnassus" by Czeslaw Milosz.

The central insight of David Walsh’s book is that “the person is transcendence."

'The Fellowship,' by Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski

I rsquo ve heard it said hurt people hurt If anyone was ever hurt as a child not physically but emotionally it was Tennessee Williams His mother Edwina rsquo s denial did the hurting denial she turned into an art form which her son turned into art And John Lahr senior drama critic of The Ne

Tim Kendall's anthology, 'Poetry of the First World War'

This new literary biography mdash rdquo not a formal biography but more than a work of literary criticism rdquo in the words of its author Robert Milder professor of English at Washington University in St Louis mdash contends that Nathaniel Hawthorne was a man divided be-tween his realist perc

Some Catholics have lamented that C. S. Lewis, an Anglican, never converted.