Letters Archives - The American Scholar

A Poet of Glamour and Chaos

By Sandra M. Gilbert | 10/12/2017 |

Lady Lazarus rises again

E-Maledictions

By William Zinsser | 09/29/2017 |

It’s a life choice: I don’t have email

Responses to Our Autumn 2016 Issue

By Our Readers | 12/05/2016 |

Thine as Ever, P. T. Barnum

By A. H. Saxon | 09/06/2016 |

A scholar offers three utterly fictitious letters he wishes the famous showman had written

Responses to Our Summer 2016 Issue

By Our Readers | 09/06/2016 |

The Pursuit of Middle Heaven

By George O’Brien | 02/29/2016 |

Missives about sex, love, and the value of really good talk

Bops and Dadgums

By Ernest B. Furgurson | 07/28/2014 |

Address Unknown

By Brian Doyle | 02/28/2014 |

An open letter to my brother

Responses to our Spring 2011 Issue

By Our Readers | 06/03/2011

E-Maledictions

By William Zinsser | 01/14/2011 |