About what could be: C. D. Wright’s impact on Patrick Johnson’s Gatekeeper

James Thurber: Humor for an age of anxiety

Carolyn Brown, “The VW Years”

Susan K. Harris: The round-the-world trip that made Mark Twain an anti-imperialist

Henry A. May, “Influenza on a Troopship”

A reading list for “the most deadly pandemic in human history”

Kate Chopin, “Cavanelle”

For pleasure or as a spiritual discipline, bird-watching is “a lesson in respect and humility”

Ring Lardner, “Quick Returns”

Joseph Warren, “The Bloody Tragedy of the Fifth of March, 1770”

Coming attractions: The Booksellers offers a fascinating tour of the rare book world

Constance Fenimore Woolson, “Solomon”

(Re)introducing the “decidedly unsentimental and modern” Constance Fenimore Woolson

James Monroe, “The President in Peril”

Happy 200th birthday, Susan B. Anthony

Frederick Douglass, “Eulogy for Abraham Lincoln”