Harlem Renaissance literature plays strong supporting role in MoMA’s Jacob Lawrence exhibition

“A quintessential black literary hero” and other influences on Jabari Asim’s first novel

George McMillan, “The Ordeal of Bobby Cain”

Story of the Week: Edgar Allan Poe, “MS. Found in a Bottle”

James Baldwin on hearing Martin Luther King preach in Montgomery

Mindy Aloff: George Balanchine, the Shakespeare of dance—and our contemporary

Andy Borowitz’s marketing copy for The Library of America: “Does being funny get you girls?”

Andy Borowitz on the challenge of selecting the 50 funniest American writers

Forthcoming from Library of America: Fall 2018

The Top 10 Story of the Week selections of 2018

John O’Hara, “Joey on the Cake Line”

Leslie Perri, “Space Episode”

Mindy Aloff: “Most writers . . . are fascinated by dancing”

James Fenimore Cooper reveals “deeply hidden truths” about the American Revolution

Coming attractions: A little Moonlight shines on Beale Street

John Updike, Pennsylvania, and “the matter of America”