The literary masterpiece about Washington: Has any topped Henry Adams’s Democracy?

Thomas Wentworth Higginson visits Emily Dickinson, “my partially cracked poetess at Amherst,” for the first time

Prairie Fires: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s story of poverty, struggle, and reinvention

John Matteson on the “alternately repelling and attracting” electricity between Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remembering Faulkner scholar Noel Polk (1943–2012)

For Veterans Day: Edith Wharton’s overlooked World War I novel

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita first published in the U.S. 52 years ago

Vladimir Nabokov’s butterfly studies bring together two cultures

Professional triumph and personal tragedy: When Ross Macdonald went Underground

Mark Twain and William Dean Howells: the friendship that transformed American literature

Geoffrey C. Ward on Reporting Vietnam: “An astonishingly polished first draft of history”

James Baldwin: Some degrees of separation

Ken Burns cites LOA’s Reporting Vietnam as “go-to source” for his new film

The long, hard-fought campaign that led to The Library of America’s founding

How a Library of America book is born

The Goodbye Look: The “most unusual story” that brought Ross Macdonald mainstream success