New Hope from Dope

The Deciders

Two presidents and their war

Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in ChiefBy James M. McPherson / Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln By Richard Brookhiser

Why Does a Tall Man Write Poetry?

Taking Shots

A powerful plea for vaccination

On Immunity: An Inoculation By Eula Biss

The Day of the Luthier

Last Works

Every writer eventually faces the question: Is there anything left to say?

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

The Violent Bear It Away

A Tale of War and Forgetting

Rescuing the memory of a cataclysm

Boy Wonder

Remembering Lorin Maazel

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

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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