Numbers Game
The problems of solutions
By Owen Gingerich Monday, June 9, 2014
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World By Amir Alexander
Dangerous Liaison
A CIA officer’s many faces
By Steven Simon Monday, June 9, 2014
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames By Kai Bird
On Visitors
When the Bachelor Girl and the Red Death come calling, are they mirrors for our eccentricities?
By Ann Beattie Monday, June 9, 2014
Proust Goes to the Country Club
At a largely forgettable class reunion, remembrances of things past
By Willard Spiegelman Monday, June 9, 2014
We, Not Me
A writer feels our pain
By Gary Greenberg Monday, June 9, 2014
The Empathy Exams By Leslie Jamison
“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
