Remembering Tom Wolfe, New Journalism pioneer and champion of literary realism, 1930–2018
Albert Murray, “Manifest Destiny U.S.A.”
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the “iconic piece of literature” that changed the way we think of the world
Watch: Ayana Mathis, Albert Murray, and “the old Clotilda”
Flashback: When Elmore Leonard, a “rising young writer of Western novels,” debuted (sort of) in The New Yorker
Thornton Wilder, “The Angel That Troubled the Waters”
Radio special hosted by Meryl Streep honors women who forever changed American poetry
Mark Twain and Emma Lazarus: Two visions of the Statue of Liberty
Musharraf Ali Farooqi: Isaac Bashevis Singer’s world is my own
Michelle Dean’s Sharp celebrates ten women writers who did it their way