ESSAYS

On Book

August Wilson’s play just hit the big screen, but even greater rewards await on the page

By David A. Taylor

The Baritone as Democrat

How Lawrence Tibbett prophesied the Metropolitan Opera crisis of today

By Joseph Horowitz

My Cousin Manya

One survivor’s story

By Jay Neugeboren

Writer on Board

The cruise story from Twain to Shteyngart

By Thomas Swick
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LISTS

Skeletons in the Closet

Six literary haunted houses to visit this October

By Amanda Parrish Morgan

Turning Leaves and Turning Pages

By Our Editors

The Case for Empathy

Walk a mile in someone else’s words

By Richard Wertime

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Our favorite epistolary novels

By Our Editors
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POETRY

The Art of Tuning In

Celebrating 20 years of poetry in the Scholar

By Langdon Hammer

Eight Poems

By Contributing Poets

The Art of Falling

The force of gravity in the lyrics of Andrew Motion

By Langdon Hammer

From: “Gravity Archives”

By Andrew Motion
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