From Edward Hirsch, an “intensely personal” attempt to define the American experience through poetry

“She showed the way” — Viet Thanh Nguyen on Maxine Hong Kingston

Adopt this book: David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s & 50s

Jean Stafford, “Old Flaming Youth”

Adopt this book: John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956–1987

2022 LOA in the Classroom shares fundamentals of American democracy with students nationwide

Harriet Ann Jacobs and Louisa M. Jacobs, “Building a School”

Djuna Barnes, “Alla Nazimova”

Remembering John Ashbery: LOA’s 2008 interview

Remembering John Ashbery: Writers pay tribute

LOA’s Hemingway editor to lead online course focused on the breakthrough early work

Walt Whitman, “Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier”

Dashiell Hammett, “Creeping Siamese”

Maxine Hong Kingston and Viet Thanh Nguyen

O. Henry, “Conscience with Art”

Adopt this book: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation