Shadow Archives: Scholar experiences “the thrill of literary detective work” in collections of Ellison, Petry, and others
Richard Harvey Cain, “A Nation of Croakers”
“How to be a man who’s not a jerk”: Cartoonist Chris Ware on Charles M. Schulz, Mr. Rogers, and Beethoven
Edgar Allan Poe, “William Wilson”
“One backward glance” — Daniel H. Weiss on Michael O’Donnell and the tragic era of Vietnam
Library of America offers grants to libraries to celebrate African American poetry
Join us! Library of America calls for summer 2020 interns
Samuel R. Delany: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Super-Nova
Constance Fenimore Woolson, “Miss Grief”
Forthcoming: Fall 2020
Robert Frost, “Christmas Trees”
Love unknown: Thomas Travisano on the life and worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
Nicholas Kristof shifts his focus to the crisis at home: “Attention does make a difference”
The children’s literature of Frances Hodgson Burnett: “values that we need and can relate to” today
James Thurber, “The Day the Dam Broke”
Hollywood book lovers give starry support to LOA’s first Joan Didion volume
