Rediscovering the Pathbreaking Fiction of Nancy Hale

“An American Pléiade”: Adam Gopnik on Edmund Wilson, S. J. Perelman, and Richard Wilbur

Adopt This Book: African American Poetry

WATCH: Literary Luminaries Reflect on the Writers Whose Work Shaped Their Own

Forthcoming: Spring 2024

“A Lady from Redhorse,” Ambrose Bierce

“Let Slavery Die,” Henry Highland Garnet

The Other American Gothic: Director Cody Knotts on Adapting Charles Brockden Brown’s Macabre Masterpiece for Film

“Natural magic”: Philip Davis on the unapologetic heart-work of Bernard Malamud

“The Best American Writer You’ve Never Heard Of”: A Tribute to Charles Portis

Spring 2023 LOA in the Classroom: students learn Thoreau’s ideas on our responsibility to the natural world

“The Main Death,” Dashiell Hammett

‘She wrote about subjects you weren’t supposed to write poems about’: Sarah Bridgins on the works that inspired her gut-punch debut collection

“Something entirely new grows up out of that rich darkness”: David Naimon on Ursula K. Le Guin’s mesmerizing poetry

Library of America Diverse Voices Editorial Fellowship (now hiring for Fall 2023)

“America is nothing if not a polyphony”: author Tom Piazza imagines the greatest literary conference that never happened