“Ralph Ellison’s photographs, when considered along with the scattered but significant allusions to photography and moviemaking found in his fiction and nonfiction, raise enduring questions about reality, photography, and the art of the novel.” —Jed Perl go.nybooks.com/4eUM4Sf

It was good green corn before the harvest.

Happy birthday to the inimitable Anne Sexton

Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857). Highly recommend.

Announcing the Winners of the 2024 National Book Awards! #NBAwards

Announcing the line up of the 2025 T. S. Eliot International Summer School! At Merton College, 5-13 July. Scholarships available. For more info & to register: tseliotschool.com T. S. Eliot Foundation International T. S. Eliot Society MSA (Modernism) British Association for Modernist Studies

Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome (1911). Highly recommend. Especially amid winter weather.

Hey man nice fragments. Have you shored them against your ruins?

LM 18.1 includes a 2015 interview with the “lost giant of American literature,” William Melvin Kelley. This interview, which is believed to be the last one Kelley ever gave, has never been published before now. literarymatters.org/18-1-a-conserv…