Year in Review: a look back at our best online content of 2024

“What do I mean by authoritative text?”: Library of America Editor Stefanie Peters on the Making of a Definitive Edition

“The Joy of Nelly Deane,” Willa Cather

The Broken Clock in Salvadoran Poetry: an Essay by Alexandra Lytton Regalado

“An Encounter with an Interviewer,” Mark Twain

“The Wickedest Woman in Larchmont,” S. J. Perelman

“Outrageous Errors and Goofs”: David Mikics on the Loony Legacy of MAD

“A Place None of Us Know”: Writing, Loss, and Joan Didion’s Late Memoirs

1925: The Scopes Trial, the Culture War, and Four American Masterpieces, with Brenda Wineapple

“The Lover and the Tell-Tale,” Stephen Crane

Before and After: Bringing the Bullfighting Photos of Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon Back to Life

Burning Down the House: Reading Faulkner’s Short Stories Now

“It’s an Honor,” Jimmy Breslin

Adopt This Book: John Cheever: Collected Stories & Other Writings

Truman Capote at 100: A Chameleon Poet

“Love in the Night,” F. Scott Fitzgerald