“A quintessential black literary hero” and other influences on Jabari Asim’s first novel
George McMillan, “The Ordeal of Bobby Cain”
Story of the Week: Edgar Allan Poe, “MS. Found in a Bottle”
James Baldwin on hearing Martin Luther King preach in Montgomery
Mindy Aloff: George Balanchine, the Shakespeare of dance—and our contemporary
Andy Borowitz’s marketing copy for The Library of America: “Does being funny get you girls?”
Andy Borowitz on the challenge of selecting the 50 funniest American writers
Forthcoming from Library of America: Fall 2018
The Top 10 Story of the Week selections of 2018
John O’Hara, “Joey on the Cake Line”