J. Michael Lennon: Norman Mailer “recognized the permanent cleft in the American character”
Up-and-coming writers receive superlative books (and $50,000) at 2018 Whiting Awards
Washington Irving, “The Bold Dragoon, or the Adventure of My Grandfather”
Luc Sante takes a “headlong plunge” into the lives of nineteenth-century American poets
Museum exhibition: For Tennessee Williams, the play was the thing (that kept him going)
Sportswriter Alexander Wolff: “Basketball becomes a way of working through things”
Edgar Allan Poe, “Morning on the Wissahiccon”
Edith Roberts, “Indiana’s Town of Champions”
Historian Eric Foner: “In some sense, Reconstruction never ended”
Brooks D. Simpson: Faithfulness to the historical record places race at the center of Reconstruction