Karl Kroeber, “Sisters and Science Fiction”
Foundations underwrite LOA’s new program to train teachers in using environmental texts
Paul Goodman, “The Young Pacifist”
Story of the Week: Red Smith, “I’m the Greatest”
Funding now available to explore America’s role in WWI and its relevance 100 years later
Jed Perl: how the lives of visual artists were “woven together with the lives of novelists, poets, and intellectuals”
Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Kiss”
A new “model of black selfhood,” and a heroine ahead of her time, in Their Eyes Were Watching God
Robert Lipsyte describes how Cassius Clay met The Beatles
Forty years ago, the first Muhammad Ali–Joe Frazier bout, “The Fight of the Century,” linked their legends forever
Watch: Sportswriter’s classic portrayal of Muhammad Ali, “the maddest of existentialists,” lives again in new video
Amy Lowell, “Spring Day”
Scholars rediscover three forgotten stories by Zora Neale Hurston
Charles Brockden Brown, “Somnambulism”
Lawrence Rosenwald: War No More demonstrates “remarkable vitality and diversity” of American antiwar writing
Joanne Freeman: The insults that started duels in Alexander Hamilton’s America
