“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”