Caleb Crain is the author of American Sympathy, a study of friendship between men in early American literature. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and n+1. His novel Necessary Errors will be published in 2013.
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‘In Defense of the New York Public Library’: An Exchange
July 12, 2012
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A Very Different Pakistan
November 5, 2009
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
by Daniyal Mueenuddin
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‘Move Closer, Please’
May 1, 2008
The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson
an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 7–December 31, 2007, and the Amon Carter Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, February 16–April 27, 2008.
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The Miracle Woman
July 19, 2007
Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America
by Matthew Avery Sutton
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The Murder of Lucy Pollard
July 15, 2004
A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial
by Suzanne Lebsock
Race Man: The Rise and Fall of the ‘Fighting Editor’ John Mitchell Jr.
by Ann Field Alexander
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A Star Is Born
May 23, 2002
‘My Heart Is a Large Kingdom’: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller
edited by Robert N. Hudspeth
Margaret Fuller, Critic: Writings from the New-York Tribune, 1844–1846
edited by Judith Mattson Beanand Joel Myerson