In her engrossing book “A Wilder Shore,” Camille Peri tells the story of R.L.S. and his American wife, Fanny Van de Grift. By Brooke Allen Edinburgh calls to readers, its pearl-grey skies urging them ...

I am sorry to say I haven’t read anything by Robert Louis Stevenson (RLS to scholars, Louis to his friends), but I’ve come close by reading Brian Doyle’s The Adventures of John Carson in Several ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Stevenson’s was one of those large, flowing talents of the kind that always seem to leave lots of spillage in the ...

The third TODAY Book Club pick is "Under the Wide and Starry Sky," the second novel by Nancy Horan, the celebrated author of "Loving Frank." Share your thoughts about Horan's windswept romance by ...

Sheltering in place this spring to hide out from the coronavirus, I’ve been keeping busy by reading escapist literature. A younger version of myself might have curled up with a copy of Robert Louis ...

Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish author of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “Treasure Island,” among others, is the latest writer to be granted digital immortality. In an effort ...

Good morning. Robert Louis Stevenson’s short time in Bournemouth, where he developed an epistolary friendship with Henry James, was one of the most productive periods of his life. Andrew O’Hagan tells ...