Stony the Road: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., on Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow
Baldwin and Merwin: Matthew Zapruder’s guiding spirits in Father’s Day
Sarah Orne Jewett, “The Passing of Sister Barsett”
Remembering Toni Morrison’s friendship with James Baldwin
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Great Carbuncle”
Kate Wilhelm, “Baby, You Were Great”
Willa Cather, “A Death in the Desert”
Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”
Sarah Orne Jewett, “The Town Poor”
Theodore Dreiser, “A Traveler at Forty: Paris!”
Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson’s Four Saints sing again in new recording
Tim Page: The blunt, bracing, witty, still-relevant “bomb thrower” Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson, the music critic who “managed to demystify an art that was often regarded as otherworldly”
Theodore Dreiser, “The Village Feudists”
Ishmael in Warsaw: Daniel Aaron’s Polish Journal
Thomas Mallon on Booth Tarkington: “he sees things through to their bitter, true conclusion”
