Intern guest post: The “irrepressible cry” in a novel of social critique
Theodore Roosevelt, “A Very Sad Thing”
Carol Emshwiller, “Pelt”
New exhibitions humanize three twentieth century writers
John O’Hara in the 1930s: “he habitually told Americans the truth about themselves”
Kate Chopin, “Ozème’s Holiday”
Dorothy Parker, “The Jest”
J. Courtney Sullivan on whom she re-reads: W. H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, Jane Smiley, Richard Yates
Library of America interviews Rafia Zafar about the Harlem Renaissance
Long-awaited expiration of copyright law is “a boon for readers,” and for LOA
Harlem Renaissance literature plays strong supporting role in MoMA’s Jacob Lawrence exhibition
“A quintessential black literary hero” and other influences on Jabari Asim’s first novel
George McMillan, “The Ordeal of Bobby Cain”
Story of the Week: Edgar Allan Poe, “MS. Found in a Bottle”
James Baldwin on hearing Martin Luther King preach in Montgomery
Mindy Aloff: George Balanchine, the Shakespeare of dance—and our contemporary