By: Suzanne Fischer

His YA novels fuse an erudite silliness with real menace.

By: Joshua Glenn

10 of the best 1965 adventures for older kids!

By: William Nericcio

Lights, camera, action suffuse the cadence of his sentences.

By: Robert Wringham

His was a nuts-and-bolts science fiction.

By: Amanda French

Who is your Jane Austen?

By: Mark Kingwell

Life lessons and manhood-tutorials.

By: Joshua Glenn

From PALMER ELDRITCH to THE BERLIN MEMO­RANDUM.

By: Amanda French

A Victorian — but no apologist for Victorian values.

By: Devin McKinney

Owner of a melancholia notable for its intensity.

By: Mark Kingwell

Her thought-provoking speculative fiction is also terrific literature.

By: Devin McKinney

A muckraking civil rights journalist and conservative intellectual.

By: Tor Aarestad

The mind and lived experience, interleaved!

By: Joshua Glenn

He defended artifice and imagination vs. the so-called “natural.”

By: Anthony Miller

One of the great Promethean spirits of the counterculture.

By: Mark Kingwell

A portrait in vivid failure.