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Revisiting Portnoy’s complaints, 50 years later, with Bernard Avishai

Madeleine L’Engle on A Wrinkle in Time: “It’s for people”

Watch: Leonard S. Marcus on his first meeting with a “totally engaged” Madeleine L’Engle

Remembering Tom Wolfe, New Journalism pioneer and champion of literary realism, 1930–2018

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Historian Eric Foner: “In some sense, Reconstruction never ended”

Watch: Ayana Mathis, Albert Murray, and “the old Clotilda”

Adam Gopnik on the Trump moment: “Who wrote this story?”

Thomas Mallon: Shut off cable news and read Eudora Welty instead

Novelist Thomas Mallon on why we need Mary McCarthy more than ever

CUNY historian weighs the parallels between Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson

Watch: Two writers deliver stirring testimonials at LOA’s 35th birthday party

Seven writers, including Alexander Hamilton and Frederick Law Olmsted, enter New York State Writers Hall of Fame

A. Scott Berg: World War I and the end of American isolationism

Documentary project locates Walt Whitman’s “multitudes” in today’s Deep South