Ben Tarnoff’s book The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers who Reinvented American Literature offers a fresh look at four authors who came into their own during San Francisco’s burgeoning 1860s. The ...

As October draws to a close, we prepare to celebrate the event that makes this month so spectacularly scary: Halloween! For my series “October: A Month for Spooky Tales,” I have examined Alabama’s legendary st...