Peter S. Beagle at eighty.

The second volume of a new biography sheds some light on the question.

And his struggle to break into, and remain in, the literary establishment.

And British insistence that there is no such thing.

Of refugees and pigeons.

He was no “is descendant of Machiavelli.”

Jewish literature, like Jews, will either become more overtly Jewish, or cease to be Jewish at all.

Joyless exuberance.

The adventures of an American Jewish novelist.

To the frustration of German test-takers.

The ballebos of the bluegrass.

Distant cousins.

A once-bustling immigrant city.