The Transcendentalists and Their World: Robert A. Gross on why Concord matters

David Denby: Is it still possible to teach The Scarlet Letter in high school?

Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Great Carbuncle”

Nathaniel Hawthorne, “A show of wax-figures”

Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birth-Mark”

Geoffrey O’Brien: The House of Walworth, American Gothic, and Gilded Age literature