David Denby: Is it still possible to teach The Scarlet Letter in high school?
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Winter Dreams”
Adopt this book: Kurt Vonnegut: Novels 1963–1973
Constance Fenimore Woolson, “In Sloane Street”
How Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August influenced decision making during the Cuban Missile Crisis
The pathbreaking Virginia Hamilton and her “liberation literature”
Frederick Douglass, “Reconstruction”
Resources for HBO Max’s Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Valentine’s Day query: Is Edna St. Vincent Millay “America’s foremost love poet?”
Edmund Pearson, “Hell Benders, or The Story of a Wayside Tavern”
Kate Chopin, “Miss McEnders”
Library of America remembers Jason Epstein, 1928–2022
“Language as a weapon against the seemingly incomprehensible” in three war memoirs
Adopt this book: James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, and Shorter Fiction
Washington Irving, “The Legend of the Enchanted Soldier”
W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Experts”
