Help keep Salon independent

Topic: American Literature

(Nicole Young)

Symbolic use of barrier contraceptives

Donna J. Drucker - MIT Press Reader
FILE - In this Jan. 27, 1993 file photo, American author Toni Morrison is shown at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. Her novels, such as 1987's "Beloved," have shone a light on the racial prejudices that have afflicted her homeland. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) (AP)

Toni Morrison's radical ambiguity

Paul Giles - The Conversation
Donald Trump; Walt Whitman (Reuters/Carlo Allegri/Wikimedia)

Walt Whitman saw Trump coming

David Masciotra
(AP/Carolyn Kaster/Salon)

It really can happen here

Malcolm Harris
Advertisement:
(Penguin/Stanley Staniski/Wikimedia)

The threat to America's soul

Laura Miller
(flickr/Steve Rhodes/Reuters/Joaquin Sarmiento)

American lit's holy grail

Lawrence Buell

Vanessa Veselka - The American Reader
Advertisement: