Funding now available to explore America’s role in WWI and its relevance 100 years later

A new “model of black selfhood,” and a heroine ahead of her time, in Their Eyes Were Watching God

Robert Lipsyte describes how Cassius Clay met The Beatles

Forty years ago, the first Muhammad Ali–Joe Frazier bout, “The Fight of the Century,” linked their legends forever

Scholars rediscover three forgotten stories by Zora Neale Hurston

Photos: A party in the park celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted

Library of America remembers its founding president and life trustee Daniel Aaron, 1912–2016

Photos: Ohio University honors LOA President for her commitment to literature

Announcing: The Spring 2016 Hamilton Tickets Giveaway

NEH grant helps fund major LOA program marking 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I

Eudora Welty and William Maxwell: Letters formed a fifty-year friendship

Abigail Adams on the divisive election of 1800: “universal confusion will be the concequence”

How Louisa May Alcott revolutionized the “book for girls” with Little Women

Rediscovered: The “audacious,” “charming,” “fully alive” late memoirs of Henry James

In New York, starry names highlight a 100th birthday party for Shirley Jackson

Reinhold Niebuhr, Barack Obama, and the sense of a reality that “judges yet forgives”