Alexander Hamilton, “Examine Well Your Heart”
Photos: New American Writers Museum in Chicago celebrates written word as a democratic medium
Sarah Orne Jewett, “Decoration Day”
Library of America marks thirty-five years as curator of America’s written heritage
Forthcoming from Library of America: Winter–Spring 2018
Shake It Up: Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar on the music writers who taught the world how to hear
Down the Nightmare Alley: A noirish dance of shadow and light
Louisa May Alcott, “My Girls”
Unforgettable lonely boy James Dean carries East of Eden on his narrow shoulders
Edward Lucas White, “Lukundoo”
With It’s All One Case, a designer and collector has Ross Macdonald covered
Indignation: Roth, repression, and rebellion in the early Fifties
When it’s okay to stray from the source: No Way Out resets The Big Clock
Stephen Crane, “Four Men in a Cave”
Julie Buntin: Liberated by Lorrie Moore’s Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
A. Scott Berg: World War I and the end of American isolationism