The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: David Waldstreicher on a revolutionary poet
David W. Blight on Frederick Douglass, “prose poet of American democracy”
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom with David W. Blight
Kevin Maloney: learning to dress up tragedy in fiction and “serve it to the reader in the form of dark comedy”
Book Madness author Denise Gigante on the obsessive 19th-century bibliomaniacs who “lived in and through books”
Roads not taken: Andrew H. Miller discusses On Not Being Someone Else
Marisa Crane: five works that inspired them to create “a complex dystopian world that runs on people’s shame”
Grace Paley, “The Loudest Voice”
“A forceful style, an urgent style”: Norman Mailer at 100
Highlights from Ordinary Heroes: Bruce Catton’s Civil War Masterpiece