RUSSELLVILLE -- Dog Ear Books, which opened in 2016 as a family business and remains one, is now in its third location in downtown Russellville, having found a retail niche in the city. Its success ...

When it was announced that the 2011 Nobel Prize in literature was going to Tomas Tranströmer, Americans could be forgiven for not immediately recognizing the name of the 80-year-old Swedish poet. His ...

Golden fields, sun-drenched houses, sunflowers dancing in the light. It’s difficult to reconcile the beautiful paintings Vincent van Gogh made while living in Southern France with his act of ...

THE NEW YORKERS by Hortense Calisher. 559 pages. Little, Brown. $7.95. This massive family chronicle begins impressively and then dissipates itself in authorish rhetoric and an obsessively circular ...

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (162 pp.) —Yvor Winters—New Directions ($2). In poetry, as in everything else, reason should be the controlling principle. That is what Professor Yvor Winters of Stanford ...

I’m an inveterate reader; have been since I was a mere tot. It runs in my family, too. You’ll be hard-pressed at any family gathering not to find dozens of books stashed away in purses, backpacks, or ...