The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend
How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths
By Janna Malamud Smith Friday, January 24, 2025
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Thursday, January 23, 2025
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union by Richard Carwardine
“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 21, 2025
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 Christophe by 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
Looking In, Looking Out
Artist Betty Yu turns the camera on her family
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 15, 2021
The Madman in the Mansion
Where he comes from and why he must be unseated
By Sandra M. Gilbert Thursday, January 14, 2021
“To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 12, 2021
The Father of Art History
The man behind the great men of the Renaissance
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 8, 2021
Off Broadway
Remembering those hallowed days of New York theater
By Harrison Hill Thursday, January 7, 2021
“A Prison Evening” by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Hamlet vs. the Nazis
A look back at Ernst Lubitsch’s 1942 movie, To Be or Not To Be
By David Lehman Monday, January 4, 2021
