Susan Ware: Race, region, and the full story of the fight for women’s suffrage

Are You There Ursula? It’s Me, Sean

Fifty more great opening lines from American novels

Lysley Tenorio: Bharati Mukherjee as catalyst and inspiration

Ernest Hemingway, “A Veteran Visits the Old Front—Wishes He Had Stayed Away”

Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case”

Lancaster Hill, Peter Bess, Brister Slenser, Prince Hall, et al. — “The natural right of all Men—& their Children”

Monique Truong: Lafacadio Hearn’s wandering life as a search for home

Songs in the night: Spirituals and James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”

Martin J. Sherwin: At his core, Jonathan Schell was a philosopher

Ambrose Bierce, “Working for an Empress”

Read, discuss: Fifty of the most memorable opening lines in American novels

Bloom, Baldwin, and the prophet Jeremiah: A chat with David Mikics

W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Souls of White Folk”

Forthcoming: Spring 2021

Margaret Ann Caldwell, “The Assassination of Senator Charles Caldwell”