David Denby: Is it still possible to teach The Scarlet Letter in high school?
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Winter Dreams”
Adopt this book: Kurt Vonnegut: Novels 1963–1973
Constance Fenimore Woolson, “In Sloane Street”
How Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August influenced decision making during the Cuban Missile Crisis
The pathbreaking Virginia Hamilton and her “liberation literature”
Frederick Douglass, “Reconstruction”
Resources for HBO Max’s Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Valentine’s Day query: Is Edna St. Vincent Millay “America’s foremost love poet?”
Edmund Pearson, “Hell Benders, or The Story of a Wayside Tavern”