“Experimental in the Fullest Sense”: Marc Robinson on the Convention-Shattering Works of Adrienne Kennedy
The Other American Gothic: Director Cody Knotts on Adapting Charles Brockden Brown’s Macabre Masterpiece for Film
“Natural magic”: Philip Davis on the unapologetic heart-work of Bernard Malamud
“Something entirely new grows up out of that rich darkness”: David Naimon on Ursula K. Le Guin’s mesmerizing poetry
“America is nothing if not a polyphony”: author Tom Piazza imagines the greatest literary conference that never happened
Notes on Charles Portis’s notes: Jay Jennings pores over a cache of papers by America’s “least-known great writer”
The Wounded World: Chad L. Williams on a lost masterwork by W.E.B. Du Bois
Mark Osteen on the apocalyptic satire and historical panorama of Don DeLillo
The Forest Cathedral, an environmental adventure where you play as Rachel Carson
Lisa Yaszek on “the watershed moment” of 1970s feminist science fiction
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: David Waldstreicher on a revolutionary poet
David W. Blight on Frederick Douglass, “prose poet of American democracy”
Book Madness author Denise Gigante on the obsessive 19th-century bibliomaniacs who “lived in and through books”
Roads not taken: Andrew H. Miller discusses On Not Being Someone Else
Alfred Bendixen on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s haunted tales and utopian visions
There is “a strong spiritual thread” running through all of Oscar Hijuelos’s novels
