Arthur Phillips probes the “seamless circle” of Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire
Frank Norris, “Grettir at Thorhall-stead”
Rupert Trimmingham, “Democracy?”
Friends Divided: Gordon S. Wood on the complicated relationship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Talented New York trio finds the music in Jack Kerouac’s poetry and prose
Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell: Jack Kerouac and the “universal experience of being alive”
Professional triumph and personal tragedy: When Ross Macdonald went Underground
Mark Twain and William Dean Howells: the friendship that transformed American literature
Novelist Thomas Mallon on why we need Mary McCarthy more than ever
John Dos Passos, “The Donkey Boy”
Geoffrey C. Ward on Reporting Vietnam: “An astonishingly polished first draft of history”
James Baldwin: Some degrees of separation
Peter Taylor, “Je Suis Perdu”
Laura Dassow Walls: “We have misread Thoreau, tragically”
Carmen Maria Machado: American classics that influenced Her Body and Other Parties
Ken Burns cites LOA’s Reporting Vietnam as “go-to source” for his new film
