“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
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
Con Man
A writer catalogs his great-grandfather’s infamous crimes
By Brenda Wineapple Friday, June 1, 2012
A Disposition To Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor’s Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States By Geoffrey C. Ward
A Feast of Fat Things
After umpteen years of living in America, an English writer gives thanks for its salient pleasures
By Paul West Friday, June 1, 2012
Artful Lies
A deception signals a new age
By Graeme Wood Friday, June 1, 2012
Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty By Modris Eksteins
Yellow Journalist
Confessions of a novice writer at the New York Post
By Gerald Nachman Friday, June 1, 2012
Rites of Passage
When a quirky old man who lived on the Cape died, I thought I didn’t care
By Steve Macone Friday, June 1, 2012
My Life as a Door
Not exactly Yeats, but noteworthy nonetheless
By Robert Zaretsky Friday, June 1, 2012
