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Remembering Christopher Carduff:1956–2023

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Adopt This Book: William Maxwell: Later Novels and Stories

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“He loved a broad margin to his life”: Maxine Hong Kingston on Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

“An American Pléiade”: Adam Gopnik on Edmund Wilson, S. J. Perelman, and Richard Wilbur

Adopt This Book: African American Poetry

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Spring 2023 LOA in the Classroom: students learn Thoreau’s ideas on our responsibility to the natural world

Intern guest post: An author who wrote all about, and for, flawed women

Adopt This Book: Herman Melville: Complete Poems

Forthcoming: Fall 2023

“A forceful style, an urgent style”: Norman Mailer at 100

Forty Years of the LOA Series: Top Volumes 1982–2022