One Touch of Nature: Beatrix Potter and the World She Made
A concise new life of the creator of Peter Rabbit and Pigling Bland illuminates a life devoted to the world…
Michael Dirda
Michael Dirda is a Fulbright Fellowship recipient and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post Book World. He is the author of the memoir An Open Book (2003) and several collections of essays, including Book by Book (2005) and Classics for Pleasure (2007). His latest book, On Conan Doyle, was published in 2011 by Princeton University Press.
The Serious Make-Believe of E. Nesbit
The prolific author of the Bastables and “Five Children and It” created adventures that still capture the magic of childhood.…
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
The great chronicler of turn-of-the-century New York was also a master of the chilling tale.
Evan S. Connell: Bridging the Islands
The late author was an artist unconstrained by genre or convention.
Diamond in the Roughneck: The Books of Harry Crews
The lasting impact of a writer committed to the “jagged edges” of the soul.
"We Revel in a Crowd of Any Kind": Dickens the Journalist
The great novelist, in love with the life of the streets.
The Ghost Stories of Lafcadio Hearn
The uniquely chilling tales of an almost forgotten master of spectral fiction.
Toga Tabloid: The Lives of the Caesars
Michael Dirda on the gripping, gossipy style of the Roman historian Suetonius.