The Escape, first published play by an African American, leaps to the New York City stage
Ezra Greenspan on William Wells Brown: “The most rivetingly inventive, entertaining black writer of his era”
New York Public Radio: Kenneth Fearing’s media fixations made him ahead of his time
Kate Chopin, “Her Letters”
Documentary GI Jews lends new texture to the American World War II saga
J. Michael Lennon: Norman Mailer “recognized the permanent cleft in the American character”
Up-and-coming writers receive superlative books (and $50,000) at 2018 Whiting Awards
Washington Irving, “The Bold Dragoon, or the Adventure of My Grandfather”
Luc Sante takes a “headlong plunge” into the lives of nineteenth-century American poets
Museum exhibition: For Tennessee Williams, the play was the thing (that kept him going)
Sportswriter Alexander Wolff: “Basketball becomes a way of working through things”
Edgar Allan Poe, “Morning on the Wissahiccon”
Edith Roberts, “Indiana’s Town of Champions”
Historian Eric Foner: “In some sense, Reconstruction never ended”
Brooks D. Simpson: Faithfulness to the historical record places race at the center of Reconstruction
Ring Lardner, “Simple Simon”
