“Cannibalism in the Cars,” Mark Twain

Moby-Reddick: Merve Emre on John A. Williams’s Great American Novel

“The Purple Dress,” O. Henry

“Where Were You?”: JFK’s Assassination in the Annals of American Literature

“It’s Not Shrill, It’s Ultrasonic”: Queer SF Pioneer Joanna Russ’s Feminist Awakening

“She Served Me Elk Once”: Documentarian Arwen Curry on Her Decade-Long Encounter with Ursula K. Le Guin

Black Writers in Paris, the FBI, and a Lost 1960s Classic: Rediscovering The Man Who Cried I Am

Kurt Vonnegut, Armistice Day, and Veterans Day

“Stephen Crane’s Own Story,” Stephen Crane

“She Knows So Much of Love”: Charting Playwright Adrienne Kennedy’s Reverence for the World around Her

The Startling Theater of Adrienne Kennedy

Bringing Poetry Off the Page: Letras Latinas Interviews LOA’s Susana Plotts-Pineda

“Writing without trying to find solutions”: debut novelist Farah Ali on the authors who nourish her imagination

“An olive branch and a survival tool”: Raj Tawney on Madhur Jaffrey’s classic cookbook An Invitation to Indian Cooking

“Every Variety of Madness and Malevolence”: Geoffrey O’Brien on American Crime Fiction in the 1960s

The Mysterious Greatness of Gatsby