Margaret Fuller, “Our City Charities”

Intruder in the Dust captures the chilling reality of Jim Crow

Remembering Faulkner scholar Noel Polk (1943–2012)

For Veterans Day: Edith Wharton’s overlooked World War I novel

Willa Cather, “The Namesake”

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Ann Beattie on the short fiction of Peter Taylor: “He just transcends every category”

Adam Gopnik on the Trump moment: “Who wrote this story?”

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita first published in the U.S. 52 years ago

Vladimir Nabokov’s butterfly studies bring together two cultures

Arthur Phillips probes the “seamless circle” of Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire

Frank Norris, “Grettir at Thorhall-stead”

Rupert Trimmingham, “Democracy?”

Friends Divided: Gordon S. Wood on the complicated relationship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

Talented New York trio finds the music in Jack Kerouac’s poetry and prose

Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell: Jack Kerouac and the “universal experience of being alive”