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
Pencil-Pushing Spies
The secret history of how Imperial Russia kept an eye on its Chinese neighbor
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, December 18, 2020
“A Bird, came down the Walk” by Emily Dickinson
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 15, 2020
London Without its Landmarks
A mournful silence in the Stage City
By Charlie Lee Monday, December 14, 2020
Dusting Off a Classic
Who was Kressmann Taylor, author of a forgotten story of a friendship destroyed by the advent of the Nazis?
By Erika Dreifus Saturday, December 12, 2020
If I Only Had a Brain!
Inside the extraordinary minds of people who feel others’ emotions, hear hallucinations, and get lost in their own homes
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, December 11, 2020
Figuring Out Our Fourth Estate
Can democracy survive in the absence of agreed-upon facts?
By Scott Stossel Thursday, December 10, 2020
An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Pressby Stephen Bates
“Sonnet 14” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 8, 2020
