“The Purple Dress,” O. Henry

“Where Were You?”: JFK’s Assassination in the Annals of American Literature

“It’s Not Shrill, It’s Ultrasonic”: Queer SF Pioneer Joanna Russ’s Feminist Awakening

“She Served Me Elk Once”: Documentarian Arwen Curry on Her Decade-Long Encounter with Ursula K. Le Guin

Black Writers in Paris, the FBI, and a Lost 1960s Classic: Rediscovering The Man Who Cried I Am

Kurt Vonnegut, Armistice Day, and Veterans Day

“Stephen Crane’s Own Story,” Stephen Crane

“She Knows So Much of Love”: Charting Playwright Adrienne Kennedy’s Reverence for the World around Her

The Startling Theater of Adrienne Kennedy

Bringing Poetry Off the Page: Letras Latinas Interviews LOA’s Susana Plotts-Pineda

“Writing without trying to find solutions”: debut novelist Farah Ali on the authors who nourish her imagination

“An olive branch and a survival tool”: Raj Tawney on Madhur Jaffrey’s classic cookbook An Invitation to Indian Cooking

“Every Variety of Madness and Malevolence”: Geoffrey O’Brien on American Crime Fiction in the 1960s

The Mysterious Greatness of Gatsby

LOA Returns to Brooklyn Book Festival to Showcase New Releases and Old Favorites

“Absolution,” F. Scott Fitzgerald