Constance Fenimore Woolson, “In Sloane Street”
How Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August influenced decision making during the Cuban Missile Crisis
The pathbreaking Virginia Hamilton and her “liberation literature”
Frederick Douglass, “Reconstruction”
Resources for HBO Max’s Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Valentine’s Day query: Is Edna St. Vincent Millay “America’s foremost love poet?”
Edmund Pearson, “Hell Benders, or The Story of a Wayside Tavern”
Kate Chopin, “Miss McEnders”
Library of America remembers Jason Epstein, 1928–2022
“Language as a weapon against the seemingly incomprehensible” in three war memoirs
Adopt this book: James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, and Shorter Fiction
Washington Irving, “The Legend of the Enchanted Soldier”
W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Experts”
Washington Irving, “The Poor Devil Author”
Adam Gopnik: Middle-class manners and the heart of Molière’s comedy
In memoriam: Joan Didion, 1934–2021
