Evan S. Connell Jr., a literary iconoclast whose writings as a novelist, poet, essayist and historian won the admiration of critics and a cult-like following of discerning readers with books on ...

Gore Vidal was a literary juggernaut who wrote novels including 'Lincoln' and the satirical 'Myra Breckinridge,' and essays critics consider among the most elegant in the English language.

"Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend" by Cristina De Stefano. Translated from the Italian by Marina Harss. (Other, 288 pp., $25.95) These days, the news media feels blasted to … ...

But it's hard not to take account of a legend like the famously profane, famously cranky and iconoclastic Hersh. Advertisement “I don’t know the details of this story, and I haven’t followed it.

That concern was mooted when he was recruited by Dartmouth in 1963. He taught there until his retirement in 1993. Professor Hart’s books include “When the Going Was Good!

When Frederick Crews published his review essay "The Unknown Freud" in the New York Review of Books in 1993, he fired the opening shot in what has become known as the "Freud wars," a ferocious ...