Intimacy With the Inevitable
A doctor’s journey, from student to resident to consoler of the dying
By William Harless Monday, June 10, 2013
College’s Raison d’Être
British Literature or Software Engineering?
By Margaret Foster Monday, June 10, 2013
Musical Chairs
A veteran cellist with the National Symphony takes a close look at the entrances and exits of world-famous conductors
By Janet Frank Monday, June 10, 2013
At Sixty-Five
After the excesses of youth and terrors of middle age, a writer faces the contingencies of being old
By Emily Fox Gordon Monday, June 10, 2013
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
The Weight of a Stone
Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology
By Megan Craig Thursday, January 2, 2025
