“An Army with Banners,” James Weldon Johnson

“In Another Country,” Ernest Hemingway

A Voice for the Speechless Princess: Sarah Ruden on Lavinia, Vergil’s Aeneid, and the Wisdom of Ursula K. Le Guin

“The Duel: ‘Once more Adieu,’” Alexander Hamilton

“Jim Crow Was a Cash Grab”: Tyina L. Steptoe on the Harrowing History of the American Color Line

Acclaimed Poets and Scholars Contribute Readings, Commentary, and Essays to latinopoetry.org

“The Ones That Nobody Assigned”: Bear Author Julia Phillips on Building a Personal Canon

“Soldiers and Ghosts,” Ambrose Bierce

“It Is Men Who Have Got to Make the Law Free”: The Long March to Juneteenth

Forthcoming: Spring 2025

“The Adventure of the Popkins Family,” Washington Irving

“One More Beach to Cross”: Reliving D-Day through the Eyes of Those Who Were There

“Suggestions to Detective Story Writers,” Dashiell Hammett

Eyeball and Over-Soul: Biographer James Marcus on the Infinitude of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith, Fiction, and Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer, with Paul Elie and Ayana Mathis

“Magic,” Katherine Anne Porter