Smarty Pants Podcast
The Ten Commandments of Bible Translation
Robert Alter talks about capturing the art of the original Hebrew
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, April 19, 2019
Read Me a Poem
“I Am Not I” by Juan Ramón Jiménez
Poems read aloud, beautifully
by Amanda Holmes | Friday, April 19, 2019
View from Rue Saint-Georges
A Loss to Paris and the World
The fire at Notre Dame should remind us to see the world’s wonders while we can
by Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Current Issue
“Impeachment suggests dysfunction, uncertainty, and discord—not the discord of war, which can be memorialized as valorous, purposeful, and idealistic, but the far less dramatic and often sad, squalid, intemperate conflicts of peace: partisanship, rancor, and racial division.”—Barbara Wineapple
Plus: a little-known speech by Jacques Barzun on the meaning of life, Ingrid D. Rowland on the playful genius of Tintoretto, and Tracy Thompson on the complicated legacy of the southern writer and social critic Lillian Smith
Cover Story
The First President To Be Impeached
Andrew Johnson beat the charges against him by a single vote, but what did the nation lose?
by Brenda Wineapple
Book Essay
Southern Cassandra
Lillian Smith was a writer and a radical who called out her region’s lies about sex and race
by Tracy Thompson
Fiction
The Third Obituary of Anton Popov
Two women, one reporter, and an opera that shall not be named
by Jessica Walker
Essays
The Hedgehog’s Great Escape
A young Frenchwoman who ran the Allies’ most persistent spy group was in the Gestapo’s grasp
by Lynne Olson
On the Frontlines
By Pamela D. Toler
An excerpt from Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler
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