Michelle Dean’s Sharp celebrates ten women writers who did it their way
Pulitzer winner Caroline Fraser on the “deep and unresolved tensions” in the Little House books
Reinhold Niebuhr combined “tough-minded political realism with a sympathetic understanding of society’s injustices”
A. Scott Berg: How World War I and America tells the earth-shattering story of an “unnecessary” war
Recommended books (and music) by U.S. military veterans trace a century of conflict
How antislavery writings reconnect us with one of the most crucial themes in American literary history
The Escape, first published play by an African American, leaps to the New York City stage
Ezra Greenspan on William Wells Brown: “The most rivetingly inventive, entertaining black writer of his era”
New York Public Radio: Kenneth Fearing’s media fixations made him ahead of his time
Kate Chopin, “Her Letters”
Documentary GI Jews lends new texture to the American World War II saga
J. Michael Lennon: Norman Mailer “recognized the permanent cleft in the American character”
Up-and-coming writers receive superlative books (and $50,000) at 2018 Whiting Awards
Washington Irving, “The Bold Dragoon, or the Adventure of My Grandfather”
Luc Sante takes a “headlong plunge” into the lives of nineteenth-century American poets
Museum exhibition: For Tennessee Williams, the play was the thing (that kept him going)
