With over 50 works on view in “Ruth Franklin: Old and New Dreams,” it’s natural that some of the artist’s portraits simply won’t hold their own.

Slate literary editor Meghan O’Rourke and New Republic senior editor Ruth Franklin were on Washingtonpost.com on Thursday, May 24, to examine Don DeLillo’s new book, Falling Man,literary editor ...

On Thursday, Ruth Franklin took home the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Franklin was honored for her biography of the writer Shirley Jackson “Shirley Jackson: A Rather ...

By Ruth Franklin. Liveright; 607 pages; $35 and £25. NEARLY 70 years after it was first published, Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery”, is still chilling.

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Ruth Franklin. Norton/Liveright, $35 (624p) ISBN 978-0-87140-313-1 . Literary critic Franklin (A Thousand Darknesses) renders a gripping and graceful portrait of the mind, life, and work of ...