The Years With Jake

My unlikely friendship with the dean of Washington lawyers

Peel, Bark, Skin

Daughters of War

Writing women back into battle

“Daffodils” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

On the Frontlines

An excerpt from Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler

Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler

The Ritual of Renewal

Forget decluttering—I need to be surrounded by my library books

A Life Off-track

A talented historian’s tragic end

A Conversation With the Novelist

The Scholar‘s online book club meets Alice McDermott

Why Not?

Brenda Mallory

Repurposed Reality

The Resistance Fighter as Philosopher

Remembering Vladimir Jankélévitch

Winter Sun

“The Vow” by Yuliya Musakovska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Lindsey Weber

Relationships that define us

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

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