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

Nicholas Delbanco explores the literary and linguistic through line connecting everything from Elizabethan sonnets to modern street slang.

Talk about irony: You coin a popular catchphrase and yet few know or care who wrote the words.

Nicholas Delbanco strolls down Lovers’ Lane (in the literary sense) and ponders the nature of romance in writing.

Novelist Nicholas Delbanco falls through the looking glass of high fashion and discovers its strange bedfellow, literature.

Novelist Nicholas Delbanco delivers a creative twist on the summer reading list, revisiting some favorite books.