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Interviews

Thomas Mallon on Booth Tarkington: “he sees things through to their bitter, true conclusion”
Booth Tarkington was the Midwest’s master chronicler of a changing America. 150 years after his birth, his keen realism and astute psychology are ripe for rediscovery.

Walt Whitman's late-life thoughts reveal a "deeply brave man" facing illness and looming mortality with courage and optimism. Brenda Wineapple in our latest interview:
Interviews

John Logan on James Fenimore Cooper: “Dive in and get reading”
Influences

Liza Wieland: From Dickinson to Mary Oliver, a lineage of poets behind Paris, 7 A.M.
Story of the Week

Nancy Hale, “The Empress’s Ring”
News

Forthcoming: Spring–Summer 2020

New & Noteworthy

What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969-2017 (boxed set)
Booth Tarkington: Novels & Stories LOA N°319
The Great American Sports Page
Cornelius Ryan: The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far LOA N°318
Walt Whitman Speaks

Featured Writers

Writer of the Week Walt Whitman
“He is our archetypal poet, our great invention in literature, our lyric voice. I like to think that eventually he will shame us into becoming Americans again.” —Guy Davenport
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