Book Madness author Denise Gigante on the obsessive 19th-century bibliomaniacs who “lived in and through books”

Roads not taken: Andrew H. Miller discusses On Not Being Someone Else

Alfred Bendixen on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s haunted tales and utopian visions

There is “a strong spiritual thread” running through all of Oscar Hijuelos’s novels

Jonathan R. Eller on Ray Bradbury’s journey from the pulps to the slicks

Stories of colonization and continuance—a new perspective on Plymouth Colony

Jonathan R. Eller on Ray Bradbury, “first and foremost a teller of tales”

The Transcendentalists and Their World: Robert A. Gross on why Concord matters

Anthony Hunt on the collected Gary Snyder: “His poems move us, drive us back to our fundamental roots”

Olivier Zunz on Alexis de Tocqueville, “The Man Who Understood Democracy”

From Edward Hirsch, an “intensely personal” attempt to define the American experience through poetry

“She showed the way” — Viet Thanh Nguyen on Maxine Hong Kingston

Remembering John Ashbery: LOA’s 2008 interview

Thornton Wilder’s novels: “exceptionally wise” excursions into motive and desire

J. D. McClatchy on Thornton Wilder’s “mesmerizing revisionist method of story-telling”

Lighting the way: 2022 National Black Writers Conference documents resilience and resistance