Photos: A short tour of Walden Pond before Henry David Thoreau’s bicentennial

Watch: Two writers deliver stirring testimonials at LOA’s 35th birthday party

Library of America welcomes A. Scott Berg and Michael Bierut to new leadership roles

Seven writers, including Alexander Hamilton and Frederick Law Olmsted, enter New York State Writers Hall of Fame

The Swimmer: A prophetic modernist fable set in a fading Eden

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Anonymous, “Bombers Over London”

Alexander Hamilton, “Examine Well Your Heart”

Photos: New American Writers Museum in Chicago celebrates written word as a democratic medium

Eugene Lim: American classics that influenced Dear Cyborgs, mostly in pairs

Slaughterhouse-Five: Unstuck in time, but alive and affecting on screen

Sarah Orne Jewett, “Decoration Day”

Listen: New Spotify playlist gives Shake It Up a “Top 50” audio accompaniment

Shake It Up: Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar on the music writers who taught the world how to hear

Louisa May Alcott, “My Girls”

Down the Nightmare Alley: A noirish dance of shadow and light