“O Albany”: Novelist William Kennedy on His Great Cycle of the City

“America’s Founding Son”: Author & Musician Bob Crawford on the Life of John Quincy Adams

Poet-Prophet of American Democracy: Walt Whitman’s Vital Political Prose

Terror, Hope, & Exodus: The Testimony of Henry Adams, Freedman

Voices from a Century of Struggle: Writings of the Jim Crow Era

Imagining Independence; or, Why Does Rip Van Winkle Sleep Through the Revolution?

A Look Inside Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry with Laura Dunn and Mary Berry

American Masterpiece: The Civil War Diaries of George Templeton Strong

Liberation & the Literature of the Women’s Movement, with Bess Wohl and Honor Moore

Helen Vendler’s Sixth Sense

The Radical Imagination of Octavia E. Butler, with Imani Perry and Tananarive Due

Reading Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America Now

The Black Fantastic: The New Wave of Afrofuturist Fiction

Remembering Victory: World War II Memoirs of the European Theater

O Mother Gaia: Director Colin Still Reveals the World of Gary Snyder

The Greatness of Sylvia Plath, with Sarah Ruden, Diane Seuss, Heather Clark, and Amanda Golden