Would today's online, social media-based friendships look familiar to the letter-writing friends of earlier centuries, when epistolary friendships were also common?

Much has been written about South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, but his newly found photographs offer a news lens through which to consider his writing.

Flash fiction by Grace Paley, Helen Phillips, Clemens Setz, Vanessa Gebbie, and Josefine Klougart, available for free PDF download.

Five new books out this week, and links to related content you won’t find anywhere else.

Our Friday Reads are these new books out this week, and related content you won't find anywhere else.

Thomas Gore was a senator from Oklahoma. His isolationism philosophy may have been his greatest legacy to his grandson, Gore Vidal.

An interview with the daughter of William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie's Choice.