“Wind-Up Doll” by Forugh Farrokhzad
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Black America’s Tough-Minded Truth Teller
How an autobiography shaped the image of a civil rights icon
By Robert J. Norrell Monday, October 26, 2020
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
How to Live With Dying
Before I could accept mortality, I had to stop running from it
By John Kaag Saturday, October 24, 2020
In Search of the Good Death
Examining our changing relationship with the afterlife
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, October 23, 2020
Skeletons in the Closet
Six literary haunted houses to visit this October
By Amanda Parrish Morgan Tuesday, October 20, 2020
“Sonnet” by Elizabeth Bishop
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, October 20, 2020
A Pioneering Appetite
The story of America’s first culinary celebrity
By Anne Matthews Monday, October 19, 2020
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard John Birdsall
The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend
How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths
By Janna Malamud Smith Friday, January 24, 2025
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Thursday, January 23, 2025
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine
“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
