Ellen N. La Motte, “Heroes”

Photos: A party in the park celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted

Listen: Esquire Classic explores the enduring strangeness, and brilliance, of David Foster Wallace’s “String Theory”

Stephen Crane, “The Fight”

Library of America remembers its founding president and life trustee Daniel Aaron, 1912–2016

David Bordwell pays homage to the “daredevil criticism” of four pioneering film writers

Photos: Ohio University honors LOA President for her commitment to literature

Announcing: The Spring 2016 Hamilton Tickets Giveaway

Frederick Law Olmsted, “Trees in Streets and in Parks”

Editor Bill McKibben on American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau

Eudora Welty, “A Curtain of Green”

Belle Marshall Locke, “The Hiartville Shakespeare Club”

“Remember the Ladies”: Edith Gelles on the incomparable letters of Abigail Adams

Against American exceptionalism: Gordon S. Wood on John Adams

NEH grant helps fund major LOA program marking 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I

Putting the alternate in alternate history: Whitman, Poe, and “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt”