Her "Letter from Selma", originally published in the "New Yorker" in 1965, was included in the Library of America compendium "Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1963–1973" (2003), and an essay from her tenure as film critic of "The New York Times", on "In Cold Blood," is included in the Library of America compendium "American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now". In 2004, Adler served as a media fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. In 2005, she became a Branford fellow at Yale University; she had been a Trumbull fellow at Yale from 1967 to 1979.