<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss
    version="2.0"
    xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
     >
    <channel>
        <title>Library of America</title>
        <description></description>
        <link>https://www.loa.org/</link>
        <atom:link rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="https://www.loa.org/feed/latest_articles" />
        <language>en</language>
        <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 15:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[“The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain,” Margaret Fuller]]></title>
                <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 15:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/the-magnolia-of-lake-pontchartrain-margaret-fuller/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12327</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[From Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, 1880, oil on canvas by American artist Joseph Rusling Meeker (1827–1889). Margaret Fuller never traveled to Louisiana, but during the winter she wrote “The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain” her mother was visiting Margaret’s two brothers in New Orleans. Image: Artvee. “We have been delighted by the sight [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[“He Breathes, He Writes”: The Voluminous Memory and Deep Empathy of &lt;em&gt;Ironweed&lt;/em&gt; Author William Kennedy]]></title>
                <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 15:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/he-breathes-he-writes-the-voluminous-memory-and-deep-empathy-of-ironweed-author-william-kennedy/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12306</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[The work of novelist William Kennedy marks the union of encyclopedic knowledge, built over ninety-eight years spent soaking up the city of Albany, and a profound empathy for human experience in all its forms, from the underworld of gangsters, gamblers, and hustlers to the heights of power and politics. As Joyce is to Dublin or [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[“Flowering Judas,” Katherine Anne Porter]]></title>
                <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 17:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/flowering-judas-katherine-anne-porter/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12317</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[From Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories &#038; Other Writings Street in Mexico, 1922, oil on canvas by American painter Walter Pach (1883–1958). Francis M. Naumann Fine Art via Smithsonian. Between 1922 and 1960, Porter wrote a total of 26 stories (three of which she insisted on calling “short novels”). Then, in 1963, she published her [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[An Archdruid’s Exit: John McPhee &#038; David Brower]]></title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/an-archdruids-exit/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12226</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[David Brower, first executive director of the Sierra Club and the founder of numerous conservationist organizations, was an indomitable advocate for the environment, and the magnetic subject of John McPhee’s 1971 nonfiction book Encounters with the Archdruid. Below, ecological activist and writer Tom Turner reflects on his long collaboration with Brower, first at the Sierra [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Terror, Hope, &#038; Exodus: The Testimony of Henry Adams, Freedman]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 15:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/terror-hope-exodus-the-testimony-of-henry-adams-freedman/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12222</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[LOA LIVE Tuesday, May 5—In March 1880, an extraordinary American traveled to Washington, DC, to testify before a Senate committee investigating the exodus of formerly enslaved people from the Southern states. Vividly describing the nightmarish violence and exploitation inflicted by “the very men who held us slaves,” the Louisiana freedman Henry Adams spoke of Black [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[“The Grist of the Gods,” John Burroughs]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/the-grist-of-the-gods-john-burroughs/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12210</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[From American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau Detail from a hand-colored photograph of John Burroughs sitting on the steps of his cabin, Slabsides, from a photographic postcard printed c.1907–09 by Valentine &#038; Sons Co., London, UK. (eBay) A Day with John Burroughs, a mesmerizing nine-minute film shot in 1919 using a new motion-picture technique called [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[“The American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps in France,” Henry James]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/the-american-volunteer-motor-ambulance-corps-in-france-henry-james/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12199</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[From Henry James: Collected Travel Writings: The Continent An American ambulance in the commune of Sacy, south of Reims, France, c. 1914–17, by Parisian photographer J. Patras (about whom little is known). Courtesy University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. In late 1914, as the war raged in Europe, Henry James spent much of his time providing support [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Registrations Open | Reading America: Acclaimed Authors on Great Writing That Resonates Today]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/registrations-open-reading-america-eight-acclaimed-authors-on-classics-to-read-now/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12187</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Starting this June, Library of America presents an eight-part series of online classes featuring leading contemporary authors on the LOA writers that resonate deeply with them and have something vital to tell us at this moment. Each session pairs an eminent novelist, historian, or critic with works and writers they find especially resonant: Annette Gordon-Reed [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Voices from a Century of Struggle: Writings of the Jim Crow Era]]></title>
                <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/voices-from-a-century-of-struggle-writings-of-the-jim-crow-era/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12192</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[LOA LIVE Tuesday, April 7—Confronting disenfranchisement, legal segregation, and terrorist violence in the aftermath of the Civil War, Black Americans challenged white supremacy in word and deed in a prolonged struggle to create a better, more just nation. Join Tyina L. Steptoe, editor of the new two-volume LOA edition of writings from the Jim Crow [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Remembering Paul B. Royster: 1953–2026]]></title>
                <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/remembering-paul-b-royster-1953-2026/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12174</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Library of America mourns the passing last week of Paul B. Royster of Lincoln, Nebraska. Paul began his long career in scholarly publishing with Library of America as an assistant editor, 1980–82, as production manager, 1982–87, and as chief financial officer and director of production, 1987–93. His knowledge, dedication, and enthusiasm made an immeasurable contribution [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Handsome, Angry, &#038; Funny as Hell: Geoff Wisner on George Templeton Strong, Civil War Diarist Extraordinaire]]></title>
                <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/handsome-angry-funny-as-hell-geoff-wisner-on-george-templeton-strong-civil-war-diarist-extraordinaire/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12153</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Opinionated, acerbic, cranky, and often hilarious, George Templeton Strong is perhaps the greatest American diarist of the nineteenth century. A patrician lawyer and man about Manhattan, Strong penned millions of words about daily life in New York City between 1835 and 1875, encompassing everything from the smallest household matters to events of national importance: slavery, [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[“Breslin on the Scene”: Raj Tawney on the Influence of Jimmy Breslin, Peerless Columnist and Fearless Truth-teller]]></title>
                <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/breslin-on-the-scene-raj-tawney-on-the-influence-of-jimmy-breslin-peerless-columnist-and-fearless-truth-teller/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12144</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[by Raj Tawney Forty years ago, in 1986, newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary on the strength of “columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens.” Highlights from that year’s Daily News pieces submitted for the award included Breslin’s groundbreaking profile of David Camacho, a young man with AIDS whose poignant and humanizing [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[“The Evacuation of Boston,” John Bowater]]></title>
                <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/the-evacuation-of-boston-john-bowater/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12141</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[From The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence 1775–1783 “Lord Howe Evacuating Boston,” c. 1861. Hand-colored print by British printmaker John Godfrey (1817–1889) after a watercolor (now lost) by British artist Michael Angelo Wageman (c.1820–1898). Image: American Revolution Institute. The evacuation of Boston by British troops occurred 250 years ago, on March 17, [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Imagining Independence; or, Why Does Rip Van Winkle Sleep Through the Revolution?]]></title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/imagining-independence-or-why-does-rip-van-winkle-sleep-through-the-revolution/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12127</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[LOA LIVE March 12—Inaugurating a series of programs to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, authors and scholars Michael Gorra, Wendy S. Walters, and Brenda Wineapple discuss three classic short stories, each written within fifty years of the American Revolution, that imaginatively explore the meaning of that founding moment: Washington Irving’s “Rip [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[A Look Inside &lt;em&gt;Look &#038; See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry&lt;/em&gt; with Laura Dunn and Mary Berry]]></title>
                <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/a-look-inside-look-see-a-portrait-of-wendell-berry-with-laura-dunn-and-mary-berry/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12082</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[During the weekend of February 20–22, Library of America and The Berry Center were pleased to present a limited-time virtual screening of Laura Dunn’s acclaimed documentary Look &amp; See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry. More than five thousand viewers tuned in for this intimate look at the world and philosophy of one of our greatest [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Forthcoming: Fall 2026]]></title>
                <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/forthcoming-fall-2026/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12058</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Our country’s literature has never been one-size-fits-all, and Library of America’s upcoming roster of releases explores great writing at every magnitude, from an epic fantasy saga to a compendium of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it micro-fiction. Whether these works can be read in a single sitting or serve as an excuse to return to the same faraway world night [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[American Masterpiece: The Civil War Diaries of George Templeton Strong]]></title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/american-masterpiece-the-civil-war-diaries-of-george-templeton-strong/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12044</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[LOA LIVE Wednesday, February 18—Called “the greatest American diary of the nineteenth century,” the journal of the patrician New York City lawyer George Templeton Strong stands as a remarkable documentary record of the Civil War and a captivating literary accomplishment in its own right. Unfolding like an epic historical novel, Strong’s precise and colorful account [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[Dime Stores &#038; Bus Stations: Robert Polito on the Savage Art of Jim Thompson]]></title>
                <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/dime-stores-bus-stations-robert-polito-on-the-savage-art-of-jim-thompson/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12013</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Jim Thompson lived hard and wrote with rawness, intensity, and a diabolical zeal for experimentation. His noirs—charged with psychological complexity, gut-wrenching twists, and lurid detail—leaped off the pulp racks primed, his biographer Robert Polito writes, to take the tops off unsuspecting readers’ heads. Critically and commercially neglected in his lifetime, Thompson built a posthumous cult [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[“Mars for Me”: John O’Hara, Champion of the Short Story]]></title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/mars-for-me-john-ohara-champion-of-the-short-story/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12030</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[We’ve been thinking a lot at LOA about the remarkable rise of the American short story. But what about its evolution in the twentieth century? One of the first places to look is the fiction of John O’Hara, the novelist and New Yorker staple (he published nearly 230 stories with the magazine, a record) who [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
                    <item>
                <title><![CDATA[“Something I’ll Tell You Tuesday,” John Guare]]></title>
                <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
                <link>https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/something-ill-tell-you-tuesday-john-guare/</link>
                <guid>https://www.loa.org/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12009</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[From John Guare: Plays Entrance of Caffe Cino, 31 Cornelia Street, in the West Village of Manhattan, 1965. Photo by James D. Gossage. The poster advertises Lanford Wilson’s short play This Is the Rill Speaking. Guare’s first production there, A Day for Surprises, was staged in August 1965; Something I’ll Tell You Tuesday and The [&hellip;]]]></description>
            </item>
            </channel>
</rss>
