All Episodes
Library of America presents LOA LIVE — 69 episodes
Poet-Prophet of American Democracy: Walt Whitman’s Vital Political Prose
“America’s Founding Son”: Author & Musician Bob Crawford on the Life of John Quincy Adams
Terror, Hope, & Exodus: The Testimony of Henry Adams, Freedman
Voices from a Century of Struggle: Writings of the Jim Crow Era
Imagining Independence; or, Why Does Rip Van Winkle Sleep Through the Revolution?
Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry | Filmmaker Q&A
American Masterpiece: The Civil War Diaries of George Templeton Strong with Brenda Wineapple and Geoff Wisner
Liberation & the Literature of the Women’s Movement with Bess Wohl and Honor Moore
Helen Vendler’s Sixth Sense
The Radical Imagination of Octavia E. Butler
Reading Democracy in America Now
Remembering Victory: World War II Memoirs of the European Theater
The Greatness of Sylvia Plath
What Is Totalitarianism? Understanding Hannah Arendt Now
“A Place None of Us Know”: Writing, Loss, and Joan Didion’s Late Memoirs
Faith, Fiction, and Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
Robert Frost: Our Poet for All Seasons
Deadline Artist: The Genius of Jimmy Breslin
Black Writers of the Founding Era
Why Don DeLillo Deserves the Nobel
I’m Dreaming of a Noir Christmas: Classic Crime Thrillers of the 1960s
Black Writers in Paris, the FBI, and a Lost 1960s Classic: Rediscovering The Man Who Cried I Am
The Startling Theater of Adrienne Kennedy
The Mysterious Greatness of Gatsby
A Celebration of Ray Bradbury
Rediscovering the Pathbreaking Fiction of Nancy Hale
‘The Best American Writer You’ve Never Heard Of’: A Tribute to Charles Portis
Small Miracles: The Stories of Bernard Malamud
Back to the Future Is Female!
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom with David W. Blight
Ordinary Heroes: Bruce Catton’s Civil War Masterpiece
The Unknown Kerouac
Lying and Politics: The Relevance of Hannah Arendt
A Celebration of Oscar Hijuelos
A Tribute to Gary Snyder
Fiddler on the Roof on Stage and Screen
The Heart of American Poetry, with Edward Hirsch
Maxine Hong Kingston and Viet Thanh Nguyen
Our Town for Our Time
World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater
Filming Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred, with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Kurt Vonnegut at 100, with Robert Weide
American Christmas Stories
Rediscovering Rachel Carson: The Oceans, the Climate Crisis, and the “Poet of the Sea”
Burning Boy: Paul Auster on the Extraordinary Life and Work of Stephen Crane
Virginia Hamilton and the Transformation of American Children’s Literature
The Light in the Piazza: From Page to Stage
On Extended Wings: American Birds and American Writing
Joan Didion: The Art of Storytelling
E. O. Wilson: An Earth Day Tribute
Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground
The Great American Western on Page and Screen
Women’s Liberation! Feminist Writings That Inspired a Revolution and Still Can
Reading James Baldwin Now: Gabrielle Bellot on If Beale Street Could Talk
Poet of the People: The Greatness of Langston Hughes
American Democracy: The Task Before Us
Peanuts at 70
The Genius of Hemingway
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
The Paranoid Style in American Politics: Revisiting Richard Hofstadter in the Time of Trump
Reading James Baldwin Now: Eddie Glaude, Jr., on “The White Man’s Guilt”
Abraham Lincoln and the Crisis of Presidential Succession, with Ted Widmer
It’s a New World, Golde: Classic American Musicals in the 21st Century
The Fate of the Earth: Jonathan Schell and His Legacy
Who Tells Your Story: Joanne B. Freeman on Hamilton and History
Reading James Baldwin Now: Darryl Pinckney on No Name in the Street
Reading James Baldwin Now: Farah Jasmine Griffin on “Sonny’s Blues”
Harold Bloom and the American Canon, with David Mikics
Andrew J. Bacevich and Sean Wilentz: What Is American Conservatism?