Righteousness Like a Mighty Stream

After a historian’s lifetime of confronting racism, signs of change

Libby Barret

Taking a Seat

Twin Pandemics

A conversation about Covid-19 and racism with Philip Alcabes and Harriet Washington

Brotherly Medicine

The poet who helped bind up the nation’s wounds

Quinto Malo

The Sculptor vs. the Poet

Marble can be toppled, yet words are eternal

America’s Black Soldiers

The long history behind the Army’s Jim Crow forts

Preaching the Floral Gospel

How the Plant Messiah saves species from the brink of extinction

Billy Joe Wardlow

Billy Joe Wardlow, RIP

The subject of a Scholar cover story, executed in Texas

In the Endless Arctic Light

A journey to the far north of Norway means confronting our changing climate

The Bears

“Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Family/History

David Levering Lewis digs into his own origin story

In the Lions’ Studio

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equationby Kenneth Turan

Such People

“My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer” by Mark Strand

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Kyung Kim

Far over the misty mountains

The Fair Fields

Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil

Just Yesterday

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