Spotlight
“Advice to a Girl” by Sara Teasdale
Poems read aloud, beautifully
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Web Essays
A Million Kindnesses
Honoring Jim Lehrer, beloved newsman and friend
by Robert Wilson | Friday, January 24, 2020
Measure by Measure
The Composer as Dissident
Karl Amadeus Hartmann and the act of bearing witness
by Sudip Bose | Friday, January 24, 2020
Read Me a Poem
“miss rosie” by Lucille Clifton
Poems read aloud, beautifully
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Portrait of the Artist
Molly Springfield
A Trick of the Eye
by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 20, 2020
Web Essays
Revolutionary Chaos
The first-ever English translation of a 20th-century Russian masterpiece
by Gary Saul Morson | Friday, January 17, 2020
Web Essays
William Holden, Model Prisoner
How the actor defined the ideal, postwar man
by David Lehman | Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Read Me a Poem
“I Knew a Woman” by Theodore Roethke
Poems read aloud, beautifully
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 14, 2020
THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK
Current Issue
“Courts found serious, reversible errors in nearly seven of every 10 of the thousands of capital sentences fully reviewed.”—Lincoln Caplan
Plus: Ingrid D. Rowland on the masterful sculptures of Bertoldo di Giovanni, Jon Zobenica on the forgotten sexual revolution of World War II, and Jerome Charyn on Tarantino
Book Essay
Norman Maclean and Me
Advice for living and drinking from the author of A River Runs Through It
by Rebecca McCarthy
Cover Story
This Man Should Not Be Executed
Billy Joe Wardlow murdered a man, but mitigating facts say he should not pay for that crime with his life
by Lincoln Caplan
Letter From
Kiev: New Leader, Old Troubles
Dysfunction still prevails in Ukraine, especially in the war-torn east; for the rest of the country, the challenges are financial.
by Megan Buskey
Article
Channeling Emerson
At work in his timeless, smoke-scented, ghost-crammed study at the old manse
by James Marcus
