The Transcendentalists and Their World: Robert A. Gross on why Concord matters

Virginia Hamilton, “Portrait of the Author as a Working Writer”

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

H. L. Mencken, “The Hills of Zion”

Anthony Hunt on the collected Gary Snyder: “His poems move us, drive us back to our fundamental roots”

John Williams, “The ‘Western’: Definition of the Myth”

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

Adopt this book: Kate Chopin: Complete Novels & Stories

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Unnatural Mother”

The Heart of American Poetry, with Edward Hirsch

Fiddler on the Roof on Stage and Screen: The Surprising Journey of a Great American Musical

Virginia Hamilton and the Transformation of American Children’s Literature

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Our Town for Our Time: How Thornton Wilder’s Play Speaks to a Changing America and Around the World

Herman Melville, “Jimmy Rose”

Michael Gorra: Elizabeth Spencer and the 1956 novel deprived of the Pulitzer Prize