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Vol. 76 (2025): What Makes an American “Classic”?

Published: 2025-02-06

Introduction

What makes an American “classic”?

Caterina Domeneghini, Claire Barnes
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Classical Liberal Education and its Discontents

To Cut Up Nightingales What Makes an American Classicist?

Constanze Güthenke
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Athens and Jerusalem Classical Education and the Culture Wars

Susan Hegeman
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Publishing and Canonicity

What Makes a (Harvard) Classic? Filling Dr Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf in 1909

Emily Coit
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NYRB and the Classics In Conversation with Edwin Frank

Edwin Frank, Caterina Domeneghini
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Poetry

Poems by David Lehman Frost at Midnight; Negative Capability; Bloomsday

David Lehman
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Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt A Conversation with Professor Willard Spiegelman

Willard Spiegelman, Constance Everett-Pite
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Cultural Commentary

The Erosion of the American Arts Cultural Memory versus “Social Acceleration”

Joseph Horowitz
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Literacy and the Quest for Selfhood in Percival Everett’s James

Robert Burns Stepto
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Interviews and Selected Chapters

The Medea Project: MAZE, Life on the Swerve

Nancy S. Rabinowitz , Rhodessa Jones, Fe Bongolan, Angela Wilson, Theresa Dickinson, Lisa Frias, Pamela Peniston
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Reprinted Excerpt from Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon (2023) by Alexander Manshel, and an Interview with the Author

Alexander Manshel
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Reprinted Excerpt from Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art (2024) by Rochelle Gurstein, and an Interview with the Author

Rochelle Gurstein
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