“Let Slavery Die,” Henry Highland Garnet
The Other American Gothic: Director Cody Knotts on Adapting Charles Brockden Brown’s Macabre Masterpiece for Film
“Natural magic”: Philip Davis on the unapologetic heart-work of Bernard Malamud
“The Best American Writer You’ve Never Heard Of”: A Tribute to Charles Portis
Spring 2023 LOA in the Classroom: students learn Thoreau’s ideas on our responsibility to the natural world
“The Main Death,” Dashiell Hammett
‘She wrote about subjects you weren’t supposed to write poems about’: Sarah Bridgins on the works that inspired her gut-punch debut collection
“Something entirely new grows up out of that rich darkness”: David Naimon on Ursula K. Le Guin’s mesmerizing poetry
“America is nothing if not a polyphony”: author Tom Piazza imagines the greatest literary conference that never happened
Nancy Hale, “The Bubble”
Notes on Charles Portis’s notes: Jay Jennings pores over a cache of papers by America’s “least-known great writer”
Small Miracles: The Stories of Bernard Malamud
Intern guest post: An author who wrote all about, and for, flawed women
Bernard Malamud, “The Silver Crown”
John Muir, “A Wind-Storm in the Forest”
The Wounded World: Chad L. Williams on a lost masterwork by W.E.B. Du Bois
