Theodore Dreiser

Teddy Dreiser tries to make it.

Considering a novel as a whole, rather than as the sum of its parts, was an approach favored by mid-20th-century literary critics. It was also useful for fighting book bans.

Rains of blood and frogs, mysterious disappearances, objects in the sky: these were the anomalies that fascinated Charles Fort in his Book of the Damned.

From log cabins to Gilded Age mansions, how you lived determined where you belonged.

When the iconic painter drew cowboys for the pulp-fiction magazine, 'Adventure.'