New “passion project” documentary Flannery reveals the writer who revealed mysteries

Dashiell Hammett, “The Tenth Clew”

“American-original genius” Albert Murray honored with fiftieth anniversary edition of The Omni-Americans

Kathryn Davis on the novels of Jean Stafford: “She never sentimentalized anything”

Djuna Barnes, “The Days of Jig Cook”

Shadow Archives: Scholar experiences “the thrill of literary detective work” in collections of Ellison, Petry, and others

Richard Harvey Cain, “A Nation of Croakers”

“How to be a man who’s not a jerk”: Cartoonist Chris Ware on Charles M. Schulz, Mr. Rogers, and Beethoven

Edgar Allan Poe, “William Wilson”

“One backward glance” — Daniel H. Weiss on Michael O’Donnell and the tragic era of Vietnam

Library of America offers grants to libraries to celebrate African American poetry

Join us! Library of America calls for summer 2020 interns

Samuel R. Delany: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Super-Nova

Constance Fenimore Woolson, “Miss Grief”

Forthcoming: Fall 2020

Robert Frost, “Christmas Trees”