Imagining Independence; or, Why Does Rip Van Winkle Sleep Through the Revolution?

A Look Inside Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry with Laura Dunn and Mary Berry

Forthcoming: Fall 2026

American Masterpiece: The Civil War Diaries of George Templeton Strong

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“Mars for Me”: John O’Hara, Champion of the Short Story

“Something I’ll Tell You Tuesday,” John Guare

Register Now: How to Read an American Poem, an online course with Edward Hirsch

“On His Hands,” John O’Hara

“A National Art Form”: John Stauffer on Rediscovering the 19th-Century American Short Story, from Poe to Wharton

“Rather Ashes than Dust”: Literary Rebel Jack London at 150

2024–2025 Library of America Honor Roll

“The Warlord of Saturn’s Moons,” Eleanor Arnason

Liberation & the Literature of the Women’s Movement, with Bess Wohl and Honor Moore

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