E. L. Doctorow pays tribute to Herman Melville’s great “kitchen-sink sort of book”
From 2013: A birthday tribute to Toni Morrison
Coming attractions: LOA hits the trail, rounds up four classics in The Western
Wendell Berry, “The Rise”
Peter Ustinov’s Billy Budd: Elemental conflict in a vivid tapestry of life at sea
Wai Chee Dimock: Reading American literature outside the box
Booth Tarkington, “The Need of Money”
We will film them on the beaches: Darryl F. Zanuck’s The Longest Day
Nancy Hale, “The Empress’s Ring”
John Logan on James Fenimore Cooper: “Dive in and get reading”