“The Main Death,” Dashiell Hammett
‘She wrote about subjects you weren’t supposed to write poems about’: Sarah Bridgins on the works that inspired her gut-punch debut collection
“Something entirely new grows up out of that rich darkness”: David Naimon on Ursula K. Le Guin’s mesmerizing poetry
“America is nothing if not a polyphony”: author Tom Piazza imagines the greatest literary conference that never happened
Nancy Hale, “The Bubble”
Notes on Charles Portis’s notes: Jay Jennings pores over a cache of papers by America’s “least-known great writer”
Small Miracles: The Stories of Bernard Malamud
Intern guest post: An author who wrote all about, and for, flawed women
Bernard Malamud, “The Silver Crown”
John Muir, “A Wind-Storm in the Forest”
The Wounded World: Chad L. Williams on a lost masterwork by W.E.B. Du Bois
Monsters author Claire Dederer on the “brilliant, fierce urgency” of Pearl Cleage’s Mad at Miles
Willa Cather, “The Bookkeeper’s Wife”
Kate Chopin, “A Visit to Avoyelles”
Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in All Its Phases”
O. Henry, “Tommy’s Burglar”
