Men in Tights
Shakespeare and the power of disguise
By Paula Marantz Cohen Tuesday, February 11, 2014
What We Don’t Read When We Read
On the words and letters we miss
By Jessica Love Thursday, February 6, 2014
“You’re Saying It Wrong”
Why the Pledge of Allegiance may have some soul-searching to do
By Jessica Love Thursday, January 30, 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
