Jed Perl: how the lives of visual artists were “woven together with the lives of novelists, poets, and intellectuals”
Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Kiss”
A new “model of black selfhood,” and a heroine ahead of her time, in Their Eyes Were Watching God
Robert Lipsyte describes how Cassius Clay met The Beatles
Forty years ago, the first Muhammad Ali–Joe Frazier bout, “The Fight of the Century,” linked their legends forever
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Amy Lowell, “Spring Day”
Scholars rediscover three forgotten stories by Zora Neale Hurston
Charles Brockden Brown, “Somnambulism”
Lawrence Rosenwald: War No More demonstrates “remarkable vitality and diversity” of American antiwar writing