“He loved a broad margin to his life”: Maxine Hong Kingston on Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

“An American Pléiade”: Adam Gopnik on Edmund Wilson, S. J. Perelman, and Richard Wilbur

Adopt This Book: African American Poetry

WATCH: Literary Luminaries Reflect on the Writers Whose Work Shaped Their Own

Forthcoming: Spring 2024

Spring 2023 LOA in the Classroom: students learn Thoreau’s ideas on our responsibility to the natural world

Intern guest post: An author who wrote all about, and for, flawed women

Adopt This Book: Herman Melville: Complete Poems

Forthcoming: Fall 2023

“A forceful style, an urgent style”: Norman Mailer at 100

Forty Years of the LOA Series: Top Volumes 1982–2022

Celebrate Four Decades of LOA with a Gift to the 40th Anniversary Annual Fund

Library of America to launch Latino Poetry initiative with a major grant from the NEH

Joseph Mugnaini and Ray Bradbury: “A real twin relationship”

Christoph Irmscher: Controversies remind us of how complex John James Audubon always was

Editor James Horn on Captain John Smith, “a superb observer and a superb narrator”