Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s stark, unheeded “Warning” on slavery

Return to Gitche Gumee: Poet J. D. McClatchy discusses Longfellow’s enduring popularity

Amit Majmudar: Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian reminds me of how “more can be more”

Sherwood Anderson, “The New Englander”

Laurence Maslon answers your questions about the great American musical

Maud Wood Park, “A Perfect Moment”

Sarah Orne Jewett, “The Circus at Denby “

The Saddest Words: Michael Gorra on reading Faulkner now

Susan Ware: Why the Nineteenth Amendment matters

Susan Ware: Race, region, and the full story of the fight for women’s suffrage

Jack London, “The Water Baby”

Love unknown: Thomas Travisano on the life and worlds of Elizabeth Bishop

The Ox-Bow Incident: William Wellman’s stunning Western illuminates how righteous cowboys can become a mob of vigilantes

Are You There Ursula? It’s Me, Sean

Orson Welles’s The Magnificent Ambersons: Our City

Pete Hamill on A. J. Liebling: The Sweet Science and Other Writings