Cauldron Bubble
Macbeth minus its supernatural elements could not have mattered so much to Lincoln and Dr. Johnson—and should not matter to us
By Edwin M. Yoder Jr. Monday, December 1, 2008
Collateral Damage
The Civil War only enhanced George Whitman’s soldierly satisfaction; for his brother Walt, however, the horrors halted an outpouring of great poetry
By Robert Roper Monday, December 1, 2008
My Bright Abyss
I never felt the pain of unbelief until I believed. But belief itself is hardly painless.
By Christian Wiman Monday, December 1, 2008
The High Road to Narnia
C. S. Lewis and his friend J. R. R. Tolkien believed that truths are universal and that stories reveal them
By George Watson Monday, December 1, 2008
Cal & Liz & Ted & Sylvia
The corresponding prose of midcentury poets
By Sudip Bose Monday, December 1, 2008
Letters of Ted Hughesselected and edited by Christopher Reid, Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A Passion for Architecture
Nuggets from a critical gold mine
By Stanley Abercrombie Monday, December 1, 2008
On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change By Ada Louise Huxtable
Let Me Count the Ways
Are we getting more obsessive or more compulsive about diagnosing?
By Richard Restak Monday, December 1, 2008
Obsession: A History By Lennard J. Davis
Lucid Madness
A massacre of Apache women and children, and the difficulties of telling their story
By William Howarth Monday, December 1, 2008
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History By Karl Jacoby
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
“The Horses” by Edwin Muir
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 31, 2024
The Snow Maiden
Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice
By Stephanie Bastek Monday, December 30, 2024
Ho Ho Horror
Why not make this Christmas a little darker?
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, December 27, 2024
