“The Main Death,” Dashiell Hammett
‘She wrote about subjects you weren’t supposed to write poems about’: Sarah Bridgins on the works that inspired her gut-punch debut collection
Spring 2023 LOA in the Classroom: students learn Thoreau’s ideas on our responsibility to the natural world
LOA Marks 40 Years with Star-Studded Celebration
“The Best American Writer You’ve Never Heard Of”: A Tribute to Charles Portis
Library of America Diverse Voices Editorial Fellowship (now hiring for Fall 2023)
“Something entirely new grows up out of that rich darkness”: David Naimon on Ursula K. Le Guin’s mesmerizing poetry
Nancy Hale, “The Bubble”
“America is nothing if not a polyphony”: author Tom Piazza imagines the greatest literary conference that never happened
Bernard Malamud, “The Silver Crown”
Small Miracles: The Stories of Bernard Malamud
Notes on Charles Portis’s notes: Jay Jennings pores over a cache of papers by America’s “least-known great writer”
John Muir, “A Wind-Storm in the Forest”
The Wounded World: Chad L. Williams on a lost masterwork by W.E.B. Du Bois
Monsters author Claire Dederer on the “brilliant, fierce urgency” of Pearl Cleage’s Mad at Miles
Levi Nelson and Benjamin Brim, “The Colfax Massacre Trial”