Proust Imperfect
The Englishman who interpreted France’s greatest novel
By Anka Muhlstein Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator By Jean Findlay
No Wonder It Quakes
A massive aspen grove with a single root system might be immortal, or might be heading for extinction
By Jordan Kisner Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Meeting the Test of Time
Why some wordsmiths stay and others fade away
By Stanley Plumly Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Those Who Write for Immortality: Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame By H. J. Jackson
Meeting the Mystics
My California encounters with Gerald Heard and Aldous Huxley
By Sissela Bok Wednesday, March 4, 2015
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
