Shawn Vestal: The genius of Henry James’s “exquisitely repressed” The Ambassadors
Eudora Welty and William Maxwell: Letters formed a fifty-year friendship
Abigail and John Adams, “Remember the Ladies”
Washington Irving, “The Adventure of the German Student”
Gordon S. Wood: How the American Revolution “infused into our culture our noblest ideals and highest aspirations”
Abigail Adams on the divisive election of 1800: “universal confusion will be the concequence”
“The Death of the Hired Man,” Robert Frost
Robert Polito: The one-of-a-kind “film investigations” of Manny Farber
Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, and the search for “Americanism”
How Louisa May Alcott revolutionized the “book for girls” with Little Women
“Told in the Drooling Ward,” Jack London
Listen: Alexander Hamilton expert explains why the “pragmatic statesman” is getting his due on Broadway
“Impostors,” James D. McCabe
“The Golden Honeymoon,” Ring Lardner
Rediscovered: The “audacious,” “charming,” “fully alive” late memoirs of Henry James
“Henry James at Work,” Theodora Bosanquet
