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Emerging Writers Take Home Classic Books and Cash Purse at 2025 Whiting Awards

“Fearless Frankness, Ultimate Secrets”: Classicist Sarah Ruden on the Mythic Journey of Sylvia Plath

“The Devil and Tom Walker,” Washington Irving

“The Happiest Time of Her Life”: Flannery O’Connor in Connecticut with Sally and Robert Fitzgerald

“The Beauty in the Muck”: Raj Tawney on the Luminous Legacy of Pete Hamill

What Is Totalitarianism? Understanding Hannah Arendt Now

“Wilhelmina,” Constance Fenimore Woolson

“Living Well, Writing Well”: Poet Ron Padgett on the Centennial of His Friend and Mentor Kenneth Koch

Rolling Along: The Next Wave of American Musical Revivals

Forthcoming: Fall 2025

The Mind and Heart of Margaret Fuller: Three Editors on Assembling the Definitive Edition of a Singular American Voice

“A Respectable Woman,” Kate Chopin

“That Moment in Life When You Stand”: An Excerpt from John Wharton Lowe’s Authorized Biography of Ernest J. Gaines

Register Now: The Heart of American Poetry, an online course with Edward Hirsch

The Tapestry of War and Memory: Elizabeth D. Samet on World War II Memoirs: The European Theater