“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
Monsters author Claire Dederer on the “brilliant, fierce urgency” of Pearl Cleage’s Mad at Miles
Willa Cather, “The Bookkeeper’s Wife”
Kate Chopin, “A Visit to Avoyelles”
Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in All Its Phases”
O. Henry, “Tommy’s Burglar”
Pamela Sargent, “If Ever I Should Leave You”
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, “Frog Pond”
Henry David Thoreau, “The Landlord”
