Can Reading Be Unlearned?
Researchers have looked somewhere surprising for answers—hypnosis
By Jessica Love Thursday, January 10, 2013
Herschel and the Steelheads
It’s time to bust the sea-lion party and save some Seattle salmon
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Returning to Matthew Arnold
Sometimes appreciation of a book depends on when you read it
By Paula Marantz Cohen Tuesday, January 8, 2013
A Dissent on Girls
What the HBO series leaves out about the lives of young women
By William Deresiewicz Sunday, January 6, 2013
Your Baby Is a Statistician
What does an 11-month-old understand about random sampling?
By Jessica Love Thursday, January 3, 2013
Dabbling in Darwin
The polymathic Victorian is good company on a winter’s evening
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Repetition, Truth
From our continuing Afghanistan series, “Snapshots of a Fading War”
By Neil Shea Monday, December 31, 2012
Let Us Now Praise Dover Books
The literary legacy of E. F. Bleiler
By Michael Dirda Friday, December 28, 2012
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
