In tracking pieces of great American literature from the 19th-21st century, we can identify an overwhelming sense of the loss of true purpose, disembodiment, and dislocation that is rather fitting ...

Journalist Terence Smith reflects on decades of reporting on American presidents, wars On our bookshelf tonight, NewsHour's old friend and former longtime media correspondent Terence Smith's ...

All summer we’ve been reading three works, picked by the team, from the canon of American literature. In this episode, we’ll present our analysis, hear what listeners thought, and work out ...

Each year, 100 years after its publication this month in April 1925, “The Great Gatsby” sells around half a million copies, but at the time of Fitzgerald’s death in 1940, it had sold fewer ...

Another assignment would be to aim as high as possible, to try to forge a work of great literature, an actual Great American Novel out of fantasy’s tropes and impulses and materials.