John Dos Passos, “Talk by the Road”
Mary H. Myers, “Carlotta, the Lady Aeronaut”
J. D. McClatchy on W. S. Merwin: “A new sound for American poems”
Ring Lardner, “Some Like Them Cold”
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Library of America honored with Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award for bringing cultural heritage “into the future”
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Ann Petry, “Harlem”
Revisiting Portnoy‘s complaints, 50 years later, with Bernard Avishai
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