Our top ten Story of the Week selections of 2017
Library of America’s best-selling perennials of 2017
Carson McCullers, “Home for Christmas”
Mark Ford: Echoes and experimentation in John Ashbery’s “most expansive decade”
John Kendrick Bangs, “Thurlow’s Christmas Story”
Herbert Leibowitz on William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound: Episodes from a sixty-year friendship
“Nobody Knows My Name”: Manuel Muñoz on Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha
Charles J. Biddle, Shooting Down a “Hun”
Revolution 250: Enter the Farmer
Turning high fashion into politics: Henry Louis Gates Jr. on W.E.B. Du Bois and the New Negro movement of 1900
The literary masterpiece about Washington: Has any topped Henry Adams’s Democracy?
Thomas Wentworth Higginson visits Emily Dickinson, “my partially cracked poetess at Amherst,” for the first time
Mark Twain, “Taming the Bicycle”
“Here I am”: Philip Roth reflects on his half-century career as a writer
Prairie Fires: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s story of poverty, struggle, and reinvention
John Matteson on the “alternately repelling and attracting” electricity between Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson
