Farewell

And thanks to everyone who helped along the way

“Nobody Heard Him”

Harry Crews’s A Feast of Snakes

A book of radical sadness

In Queens

Who needs a madeleine when you have cannelloni?

Waiting for the Gulf

The time to act was yesterday

Underserved in Health Care

Life expectancy is still low for young African-American males

Cento, Stanza Two

The Experience of Repetition

Lagercrantz’s Art of Reading and Writing

Style of effortless elegance

Parsing the Paper

Try divvying up a smartphone on Sunday morning

Local Fare

Lower the portcullis. The barbarians are nigh

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend

How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

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

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