Nick Offerman: Wendell Berry’s works are a multi-plattered feast

Remembering Tom Wolfe, New Journalism pioneer and champion of literary realism, 1930–2018

Albert Murray, “Manifest Destiny U.S.A.”

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the “iconic piece of literature” that changed the way we think of the world

Watch: Ayana Mathis, Albert Murray, and “the old Clotilda”

Flashback: When Elmore Leonard, a “rising young writer of Western novels,” debuted (sort of) in The New Yorker

Thornton Wilder, “The Angel That Troubled the Waters”

Radio special hosted by Meryl Streep honors women who forever changed American poetry

Mark Twain and Emma Lazarus: Two visions of the Statue of Liberty

Musharraf Ali Farooqi: Isaac Bashevis Singer’s world is my own

Michelle Dean’s Sharp celebrates ten women writers who did it their way

Pulitzer winner Caroline Fraser on the “deep and unresolved tensions” in the Little House books

Reinhold Niebuhr combined “tough-minded political realism with a sympathetic understanding of society’s injustices”

A. Scott Berg: How World War I and America tells the earth-shattering story of an “unnecessary” war

Recommended books (and music) by U.S. military veterans trace a century of conflict

How antislavery writings reconnect us with one of the most crucial themes in American literary history