Every generation, My Fair Lady invites us back to the ball

Floyd Gibbons, “Wounded—How It Feels to Be Shot”

Library of America’s Max Rudin: Philip Roth, native son

Fifty years on, Fiddler on the Roof isn’t just a Jewish thing

Library of America mourns the death of Philip Roth, 1933–2018

The novels and poetry of Albert Murray: “He is beyond category”

Nick Offerman: Wendell Berry’s works are a multi-plattered feast

Remembering Tom Wolfe, New Journalism pioneer and champion of literary realism, 1930–2018

Albert Murray, “Manifest Destiny U.S.A.”

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the “iconic piece of literature” that changed the way we think of the world

Watch: Ayana Mathis, Albert Murray, and “the old Clotilda”

Flashback: When Elmore Leonard, a “rising young writer of Western novels,” debuted (sort of) in The New Yorker

Thornton Wilder, “The Angel That Troubled the Waters”

Radio special hosted by Meryl Streep honors women who forever changed American poetry

Mark Twain and Emma Lazarus: Two visions of the Statue of Liberty

Musharraf Ali Farooqi: Isaac Bashevis Singer’s world is my own