John Logan on James Fenimore Cooper: “Dive in and get reading”
The Forties we thought we knew: Facing the Abyss with George Hutchinson
Rick Atkinson on Cornelius Ryan’s “vivid, visceral, riveting” histories of World War II
Sanford Schwartz on the “emotional rightness and believability” of Pauline Kael’s film criticism
“Andrew Johnson must learn”: Brenda Wineapple on our first presidential impeachment
Walt Whitman speaks!—embraces multitudes, and becomes our contemporary
Nation-building in a war of insurgency: Rick Atkinson on the American Revolution
Always Coming Home: The Ursula K. Le Guin book that breaks the novel form “wide open”
John Schulian: The “deadline artists” who brought the sports pages to life
Ian Frazier on why Ring Lardner is “a major figure in twentieth-century letters”
The power of Ann Petry: “the issues . . . she faces resonate with our times”
Liz Petry on her mother, Ann Petry: private but dedicated to service—and her art
J. D. McClatchy on W. S. Merwin: “A new sound for American poems”
“Pure imagining,” within limits: Ursula K. Le Guin on The Hainish Novels & Stories
John O’Hara in the 1930s: “he habitually told Americans the truth about themselves”
Library of America interviews Rafia Zafar about the Harlem Renaissance
