New life of John Steinbeck reveals a writer “fueled by anger”

Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death”

Sean Wilentz: Richard Hofstadter and the “paranoid style” as an American phenomenon

Fannie Barrier Williams, “Women in Politics”

Library of America remembers poet Anne Stevenson, 1933–2020

Sylvia Plath and Anne Stevenson: Two uncommon poets born two months apart

Clare Winger Harris, “The Miracle of the Lily”

Watch: Poets, actors, and others launch Lift Every Voice with rousing online event

Law and disorder in Edward Dmytryk’s Warlock

Heywood Broun, “This Side of Paradise?”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s stark, unheeded “Warning” on slavery

Return to Gitche Gumee: Poet J. D. McClatchy discusses Longfellow’s enduring popularity

Amit Majmudar: Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian reminds me of how “more can be more”

Sherwood Anderson, “The New Englander”

Laurence Maslon answers your questions about the great American musical

Maud Wood Park, “A Perfect Moment”