John Fowles was born on this day in 1926.

Beginning in April, there will be a host of events throughout New York City dedicated to the life and work of James Baldwin.

Jason Diamond on Joan Chase’s recently-reissued During the Reign of the Queen of Persia.

Jerry Saltz on the documentary Finding Vivian Maier.

The Nervous Breakdown has an excerpt up from J.S. Breukelaar’s American Monster.

Jayson Greene revisits “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” and looks at its influence.

New photographs have surfaced from the recording of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme.

Ninth Letter is holding their second annual Literary Awards competition.

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