The books honored in 2025 remind us that literature’s greatest power lies in its ability to change who gets to speak—and who ...

By championing now-essential writers like William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley helped remake the U.S. literary canon.

American Masters examines the enigmatic life and mind of National Medal of Arts-winner Navarro Scott Momaday, the Kiowa novelist, short-story writer, essayist and poet. His Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

In the 1960s, when some in academia still denied the existence of Native American literature, Paula Gunn Allen embarked on a career that proved them wrong -- and altered the required reading lists of ...

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture. This week’s installment celebrates the popular literature and authors published in America before the Civil War began in ...