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In 1982, David Wyatt analyzed where the Star Wars franchise was headed. We asked him to consider how his forecast turned out.

Amidst all the excitement of the Roths and Moores and Chabons we should not forget about Lydia Davis, whose Collected Stories comes out in one month.

Rarely have I witnessed such a countdown for a new novel from a female writer as I have with Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs.

Drunken Boat’s editor arrested, Lopate appreciates the under-appreciated, NYTBR on the MJ, and more.

Part workshop, part retreat, part lecture, it hibernates for much of the year in university English departments and home offices, emerging for a week or two at the height of the summer before scuttling back to its lair.

Inglourious Basterds, stalagim, Eurabia-mongers, Don DeLillo’s Point Omega, and more.

Conventional wisdom holds that running is bad for the knees. Conventional wisdom is wrong.

On September 15, 1938, Thomas Wolfe, author of the novels Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River, died unexpectedly at the age of thirty-seven. For the literary world, the death of the talented and ambitious young writer was a...

The story of the author’s two contributions to the magazine in 1931.

Adam Kirsch dresses down Rich Cohen, Kurt Anderson examines the Obama zeitgeist, A.O. Scott laments the dumbing down of film, and more.