The Music of Painting
Seventeenth-century debates over content and form, color and line, and artifice and reality are as relevant today as ever
By Lincoln Perry Monday, June 9, 2014
The Autobiography of Biography
In which I tell how I was drawn again and again to the lives of African-American figures, and found in them the story of our times
By David Levering Lewis Monday, June 9, 2014
Beyond the Colonies
What else happened during the year of independence?
By Andrew Graybill Monday, June 9, 2014
West of the Revolution By Claudio Saunt
A Prophet Without Honor
There’s no authoritative biography yet for Joseph Smith, the notorious founding figure in Mormonism
By Alex Beam Monday, June 9, 2014
“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
