A contract with the The New Yorker saw Nabokov through his cash-strapped pre-“Lolita” years—and continued beyond them for ...

Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

A poetic exploration of the surprising richness of the desert s plant life is the latest publication about the natural world, ...

In the summer of 1953, Muriel Spark – not yet the famous novelist behind The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie – was en route from ...

Sarah Wilson is the author of This One Wild and Precious Life (Harper Collins).