The Dating Game
If you’re dead or fictional, we’re the dating service for you!
By Pamela Petro Sunday, September 26, 2021
To Dance an Exclamation Point
The case for An American in Paris as Gene Kelly’s best
By David Lehman Saturday, September 25, 2021
Between the Sheets and In the Streets
How should we think about sex?
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, September 24, 2021
“What’s My Name?”
Ken Burns’s new documentary examines the enduring power of Muhammad Ali
By Eric Wills Thursday, September 23, 2021
“The child (who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga)” by Ingrid Jonker
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Ancestral Present
The fruits of a decades-long inquiry into contemporary Indian culture
By Shirley Streshinsky Monday, September 20, 2021
<em>Deep Hanging Out: Wanderings and Wonderment in Native California </em> by Malcolm Margolin
A Desperate Escape
The events in Kabul recall terrible scenes in The Aeneid
By Sara Mansfield Taber Saturday, September 18, 2021
Nature on Trial
What happens when creatures break human rules?
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, September 17, 2021
At the Corner of Byron and Shelley
Poetry and philhellenism at the Greek bicentennial
By A. E. Stallings Thursday, September 16, 2021
“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Keepers of the Old Ways
Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 17, 2025
“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Island Royalty
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary
By Madison Smartt Bell Monday, January 13, 2025
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut
The Writer in the Family
The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero
By Jonathan Liebson Wednesday, January 8, 2025
