Night Visitors
The power of music at a New York City soup kitchen
By Vivien Schweitzer Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Tales of Memory and Forgetting
What happens when we cease to be who we were?
By Scott Stossel Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain by Dasha Kiper by Dasha Kiper
Errant Thought
Can we keep the Enlightenment from dimming?
By Steven G. Kellman Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope by Sarah Bakewell
“The Hospital” by Patrick Kavanagh
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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
