Are characters like people?

Marcel Proust's early letters foreshadow the great novel to come

There's way more to Frost than "The Road Not Taken."

To Emily Dickinson, little besides love, human and divine, was worth writing about, and often the two seemed to fuse.

And have him chat with you about his favorite novels.

Critic Edmund Wilson reflects on the great writer's legacy.

Honoré de Balzac and an assessment of the importance of realism in French literature

It is simply a desire for self-expression, a thirst to function more broadly and brilliantly than the general, obscure in origin but irresistible in force.