Under a remarkably convincing recreation of 1819 England is both the brutality and the self-righteousness exhibited by the haves, when the have-nots ask for more.

America has published thousands of book reviews over 110 years...and some of them were more spot-on than others...

From 1939: It was a busy year for America’s film reviewer, who wrote as many as four reviews a week.

Our reviewers were not enthusiastic about two award-winning plays.

For the Feb. 23, 1974, issue, the editors invited William Peter Blatty, author of the novel The Exorcist and a producer of the film, to respond to America’s critics.    

A poem by Jessica Powers from The Second “America” Book of Verse, a collection of the best of America poetry, 1930 to 1955.