American literature

Never-Ending Nostalgia: Who and What Inspired Willa Cather

Benjamin Taylor on the Early Years of America's Chronicler of the Great Plains

 
By Benjamin Taylor  November 15, 2023
Ghosts!

On The Many Hauntings of Langston Hughes

By Nick Ripatrazone  October 31, 2023
Asian American Literature

New Homelands: Alexander Chee on Lan Samantha Chang’s Hunger

By Alexander Chee  September 25, 2023
Novelists

Art Imitates Life: On the Making of Larry McMurtry, The Writer

By Tracy Daugherty  September 18, 2023
American Poetry

Remembering William Stafford, Whose Poetic Region Was All the World

By Steve Paul  August 28, 2023
Literary Diplomats

How Ralph Ellison Brought the Complexity of the American Experience to Europe

By Harilaos Stecopoulos  August 21, 2023
Inspiration

Black Boy and Me: How Richard Wright Inspired Omer Aziz

By Omer Aziz  August 7, 2023
American Icons

Toni Morrison on Craft, Inspiration, and the Time She Met Obama

By Sarah Ladipo Manyika  February 2, 2023
Literary Biography

“The Future Belonged to the Showy and the Promiscuous.” How Edith Wharton Foresaw the 21st Century

By Emily J. Orlando  January 24, 2023
Libraries

American Literature is a History of the Nation’s Libraries

By Ilan Stavans  February 16, 2022
Joan Didion

Remembering Joan Didion

By Literary Hub  December 23, 2021
African American Literature

Tayari Jones on The Women of Brewster Place, Nearly Forty Years Later

By Tayari Jones  May 13, 2021
Women Writers

On the Unconventional 19th-Century Women Who Ventured to Write Novels

By Rosalind Miles  February 5, 2021
On Craft

Let’s Stop with the Realism Versus Science Fiction and Fantasy Debate

By Lincoln Michel  September 17, 2020
Horror

At the Literary Intersection of Climate Disaster, Apocalypse, and Folk Horror

By Tobias Carroll  January 6, 2020
Criticism

Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy, True Heir to Melville and Faulkner

By Harold Bloom  October 16, 2019
Conversations

Thomas McGuane on Not Living the Writer’s Life

By Téa Obreht  May 24, 2018
Deep Dive

Joan Didion’s Disaffected Literary Descendants

By Katie Dobbs  December 16, 2016