Henry James, “Greville Fane”
James Baldwin: Sentences like no one else
Forthcoming from Library of America: Spring 2019
Frederick Douglass, “The Work Before Us”
Lafcadio Hearn, “The Soul of the Great Bell”
Wendell Berry, “Fly Away, Breath”
Alexia Arthurs: Jamaica Kincaid’s lesson in “doing and being and desiring without permission”
Willa Cather, “Roll Call on the Prairies”
Charles W. Chesnutt, “White Weeds”
Sarah Weinman: Women Crime Writers tells a new story about genre fiction
Brad Gooch: Flannery O’Connor’s apocalyptic tall tales “give us the news that we need to hear”
New gift sets of LOA volumes enrich school libraries
Terrence Rafferty: Elmore Leonard’s West is “an idea of the West”
Remembering John F. Kennedy on the fiftieth anniversary of his inauguration
What the National Endowment for the Humanities has meant for Library of America
Megan Abbott, Jonathan Lethem, and other writers pay tribute to Philip Roth