Before COVID-19, the college campus could be described as America’s ‘last idyll.’ Perhaps that is why so many mystery writers over time have set their tales of terror at a fictionalized University of Michigan.

Opinions are like mentors, says Nicholas Delbanco. We all have them. Some are more agreeable than others.

Nicholas Delbanco packs up his personal library and opens the chapter to a new era in life.

Nicholas Delbanco joins a long line of literary “adepts” who once received instruction at a master’s feet.

With Harper Lee’s recent death, author Nicholas Delbanco ponders “the writer’s trade” in modern times.