Recommended books (and music) by U.S. military veterans trace a century of conflict
Documentary GI Jews lends new texture to the American World War II saga
Museum exhibition: For Tennessee Williams, the play was the thing (that kept him going)
The Battle of Huế, fifty years later: the first draft of history as “a vital public service”
Richard White on Frank Norris, The Octopus, and the Southern Pacific Railroad
Neil Gaiman on Ursula K. Le Guin: “a magic of true speaking”
Library of America’s top ten News & Views features of 2017
Library of America’s best-selling perennials of 2017
Herbert Leibowitz on William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound: Episodes from a sixty-year friendship
Revolution 250: Enter the Farmer
Turning high fashion into politics: Henry Louis Gates Jr. on W.E.B. Du Bois and the New Negro movement of 1900
The literary masterpiece about Washington: Has any topped Henry Adams’s Democracy?
Thomas Wentworth Higginson visits Emily Dickinson, “my partially cracked poetess at Amherst,” for the first time
Prairie Fires: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s story of poverty, struggle, and reinvention
John Matteson on the “alternately repelling and attracting” electricity between Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remembering Faulkner scholar Noel Polk (1943–2012)
