Lost Generation

In the early twentieth century, America's literature seemed provincial until Malcolm Cowley championed writers like Kerouac and Faulkner as distinctly American.

How the critic Malcolm Cowley made American literature into its own great tradition.

From Hemingway to Mencken, no one thought a woman could write about combat.

John Gunther’s “Death Be Not Proud” defied a nation’s reluctance to describe personal loss.

A visual breakdown of the U.S. Senate by age.