Forthcoming: Spring 2021

Lancaster Hill, Peter Bess, Brister Slenser, Prince Hall, et al. — “The natural right of all Men—& their Children”

Deborah Baker on Lafcadio Hearn and “the Orient at home”

Martin J. Sherwin: At his core, Jonathan Schell was a philosopher

Zora Neale Hurston: Video of her ethnographic work in Florida in 1928

Fifty of the most memorable opening lines in American novels—revealed!

Read, discuss: Fifty of the most memorable opening lines in American novels

Ambrose Bierce, “Working for an Empress”

Library of America Swag-a-palooza!

W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Souls of White Folk”

Margaret Ann Caldwell, “The Assassination of Senator Charles Caldwell”

Forthcoming: Spring–Summer 2020

John Fisher, “I First Saw the Ruins of Dunkerque”

Viet Thanh Nguyen: We still live in Ralph Ellison’s moment

Forthcoming: Fall 2020

A reading list for “the most deadly pandemic in human history”