The Unknown Kerouac

The Heart of American Poetry, with Edward Hirsch

Fiddler on the Roof on Stage and Screen: The Surprising Journey of a Great American Musical

Virginia Hamilton and the Transformation of American Children’s Literature

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Our Town for Our Time: How Thornton Wilder’s Play Speaks to a Changing America and Around the World

A Tribute to Gary Snyder

Maxine Hong Kingston and Viet Thanh Nguyen

It’s a New World, Golde: Classic American Musicals in the 21st Century

Reading James Baldwin Now: Darryl Pinckney on No Name in the Street

Reading James Baldwin Now: Farah Jasmine Griffin on “Sonny’s Blues”

#GlobalGwen initiative celebrates Gwendolyn Brooks and a literary milestone

Poet of the People: The Greatness of Langston Hughes

Reading James Baldwin Now: Eddie Glaude, Jr., on “The White Man’s Guilt”

Burning Boy: Paul Auster on the Extraordinary Life and Work of Stephen Crane

Rediscovering Rachel Carson: The Oceans, the Climate Crisis, and the “Poet of the Sea”