Ring Lardner, “Some Like Them Cold”
Gabrielle Bellot: James Baldwin as “a prophet of love” in If Beale Street Could Talk
Library of America honored with Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award for bringing cultural heritage “into the future”
“Pure imagining,” within limits: Ursula K. Le Guin on The Hainish Novels & Stories
Ann Petry, “Harlem”
Revisiting Portnoy‘s complaints, 50 years later, with Bernard Avishai
Intern guest post: The “irrepressible cry” in a novel of social critique
Theodore Roosevelt, “A Very Sad Thing”
Carol Emshwiller, “Pelt”
New exhibitions humanize three twentieth century writers
John O’Hara in the 1930s: “he habitually told Americans the truth about themselves”
Kate Chopin, “Ozème’s Holiday”
Dorothy Parker, “The Jest”
J. Courtney Sullivan on whom she re-reads: W. H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, Jane Smiley, Richard Yates
Library of America interviews Rafia Zafar about the Harlem Renaissance
Long-awaited expiration of copyright law is “a boon for readers,” and for LOA
