John O’Hara: “an important American writer who has been unjustly neglected”

James Shapiro on how American attitudes toward Shakespeare keep changing

Jed Perl: how the lives of visual artists were “woven together with the lives of novelists, poets, and intellectuals”

Lawrence Rosenwald: War No More demonstrates “remarkable vitality and diversity” of American antiwar writing

David Bordwell pays homage to the “daredevil criticism” of four pioneering film writers

Editor Bill McKibben on American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau

“Remember the Ladies”: Edith Gelles on the incomparable letters of Abigail Adams

Against American exceptionalism: Gordon S. Wood on John Adams

Gordon S. Wood: How the American Revolution “infused into our culture our noblest ideals and highest aspirations”

Robert Polito: The one-of-a-kind “film investigations” of Manny Farber

Editor Joyce Carol Oates on the enduring spell of Shirley Jackson

Harold Holzer on The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now

Katherine Anne Porter’s “unflinching account of the human condition”

Sarah Weinman on Women Crime Writers: “They had their own stories to tell . . . in distinct, sometimes ruthless ways”

Robert Polito on the “melancholy and yearning” of David Goodis, who “always seems poised for rediscovery”

Arthur Miller at 100: a “loving embrace of humanity’s frailties”