This year’s observance of Black History Month carries forward the centennial anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance. However, in this reflective season, we find ourselves at a crossroads that would be ...

I hope you will allow me to respond to James W. Tuttleton’s remarks (in “Rewriting the History of American Literature,” November, 1986) on my two collections of essays and on the projected ...

In 1773, London’s presses produced a small book with a portrait of a young woman, among many other similar copies. The woman wore a respectable bonnet across her forehead, lost deep in thought while ...

Bruce Lisman is selling a trove of 18th and 19th-century American books and rarities. His collection offers a rare look into the foundations of American literature. As a kid growing up in Vermont, ...

Which older novels, plays and poems by African American writers are being — or should be — rediscovered? By Adam Bradley Artwork by Dominic Chambers and Tajh Rust Adam Bradley, a T writer, is a ...

American literature has shaped not just the cultural landscape of the United States, but also influenced readers and writers across the globe for generations. These novels capture moments in history, ...

Percival Everett does not simply revisit American history. He challenges who controls it. From Erasure to James, his fiction ...