YouTube reviewer extols the virtues of our Melville poetry volume: “This exists!”

“How to be a man who’s not a jerk”: Cartoonist Chris Ware on Charles M. Schulz, Mr. Rogers, and Beethoven

Silliness, small stakes, and a compelling other world: Jonathan Franzen pays homage to Peanuts

Watch: “You’re weird, sir” — or, Peanuts and the politics of personal identity

Kate Bolick: “Feminism is common sense,” and other truths from Little Women

Stephen Colbert’s two-minute Moby-Dick lesson is a real roller-coaster ride

E. L. Doctorow pays tribute to Herman Melville’s great “kitchen-sink sort of book”

Watch: Why Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day isn’t “victors’ history”

Adam Gopnik: The secret behind John Updike’s productivity

Documentary project locates Walt Whitman’s “multitudes” in today’s Deep South

Gabrielle Bellot: James Baldwin as “a prophet of love” in If Beale Street Could Talk

Revisiting Portnoy‘s complaints, 50 years later, with Bernard Avishai

Madeleine L’Engle on A Wrinkle in Time: “It’s for people”

Watch: Leonard S. Marcus on his first meeting with a “totally engaged” Madeleine L’Engle

Watch: A Wrinkle in Time was only the beginning

Remembering Tom Wolfe, New Journalism pioneer and champion of literary realism, 1930–2018