Lessons of a Starry Night
A Rachel Carson essay teaches a new mother how to imbue her growing child with an awe for nature
By Kelly McMasters Friday, March 1, 2013
Found Fictions
A scholar broadens the canon
By Elaine Showalter Friday, March 1, 2013
Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel By Philip F. Gura
Kodachrome Eden
With purple prose and oversaturated images, National Geographic reimagined postwar America as a dreamspace of hope and fascination
By James Santel Friday, March 1, 2013
The Deal
Looking for an apartment in Manhattan takes patience, courage, and, sometimes, a bag full of cash
By Martha McPhee Friday, March 1, 2013
Coursera, Sera
A mixed message about MOOCs and other online college offerings
By Margaret Foster Friday, March 1, 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
