Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the “iconic piece of literature” that changed the way we think of the world
Michelle Dean’s Sharp celebrates ten women writers who did it their way
Pulitzer winner Caroline Fraser on the “deep and unresolved tensions” in the Little House books
Reinhold Niebuhr combined “tough-minded political realism with a sympathetic understanding of society’s injustices”
A. Scott Berg: How World War I and America tells the earth-shattering story of an “unnecessary” war
How antislavery writings reconnect us with one of the most crucial themes in American literary history
The Escape, first published play by an African American, leaps to the New York City stage
Ezra Greenspan on William Wells Brown: “The most rivetingly inventive, entertaining black writer of his era”
J. Michael Lennon: Norman Mailer “recognized the permanent cleft in the American character”
Sportswriter Alexander Wolff: “Basketball becomes a way of working through things”
Brooks D. Simpson: Faithfulness to the historical record places race at the center of Reconstruction
Science fiction authority presents a Universe-expanding exhibition in New York City
Cultural panic and overwhelming change: Richard White looks back on America’s first Gilded Age
Jefferson’s Daughters: Catherine Kerrison measures the chasm between the rhetoric and reality of revolution
Wendell Berry on the “talkers and storytellers” of Port William, Kentucky
Mark Ford: Echoes and experimentation in John Ashbery’s “most expansive decade”
