Walt Whitman

Publishing needs his democratic spirit.

Mark Edmundson on the great American poet as a defender of democracy.

For the great American poet, the peculiar qualities of grass suggested a way to resolve the tension between the individual and the group.

To appreciate who Whitman was, we have to reinterpret the poet in ways that have made generations of critical gatekeepers uncomfortable.

Black America talks back to "The Good Gray Poet" at 200.

A somewhat neglected vinyl-sided house is now at the center of a literary legacy battle.

As he told a friend years later, "the kiss of Walt Whitman is still on my lips."

"1861" is just so 1861.

How Walt Whitman became the quintessential poet of disability and death.

Americans tend to think of Walt Whitman as the embodiment of democracy and individualism, but have you ever considered Walt Whitman, the brand?

In the streets of New York, we try to imagine the city as Walt Whitman, and other artists of his time, experienced it.

A new biography details the cultural jumble of literature, dirty jokes, and everything in between that went into the making of the foremost self-made American.

The difference between the careers and reputations of the three famous authors is about gender as well as genius.

A Barthesian bristle and the curious power of Walt Whitman’s posthumous eyelids.

All good storytellers tell a big story within a little story, and so do all good historians.

Trump's foreign policy is not as unprecedented as it seems.

There are uncanny parallels between the elections of 2024 and 1856, with one big exception: in 1856, it was the political left that was on the offensive.

The summer sport is facing big questions about how it will adapt.

Steven Hyden's new book about Bruce Springsteen's iconic "Born in the U.S.A" album is the product of a lifelong passion for the music of "The Boss."

The representation of Jews in antebellum popular culture reveals that many Americans found them both cartoonishly villainous and enticingly exotic.