Alexia Arthurs: Jamaica Kincaid’s lesson in “doing and being and desiring without permission”
Willa Cather, “Roll Call on the Prairies”
Charles W. Chesnutt, “White Weeds”
Sarah Weinman: Women Crime Writers tells a new story about genre fiction
Brad Gooch: Flannery O’Connor’s apocalyptic tall tales “give us the news that we need to hear”
New gift sets of LOA volumes enrich school libraries
Terrence Rafferty: Elmore Leonard’s West is “an idea of the West”
Remembering John F. Kennedy on the fiftieth anniversary of his inauguration
What the National Endowment for the Humanities has meant for Library of America
Megan Abbott, Jonathan Lethem, and other writers pay tribute to Philip Roth
Every generation, My Fair Lady invites us back to the ball
Floyd Gibbons, “Wounded—How It Feels to Be Shot”
Library of America’s Max Rudin: Philip Roth, native son
Fifty years on, Fiddler on the Roof isn’t just a Jewish thing
Library of America mourns the death of Philip Roth, 1933–2018
The novels and poetry of Albert Murray: “He is beyond category”
