The Father of Art History

The man behind the great men of the Renaissance

Off Broadway

Remembering those hallowed days of New York theater

The Good Old Days

“A Prison Evening” by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Hamlet vs. the Nazis

A look back at Ernst Lubitsch’s 1942 movie, To Be or Not To Be

Many Years Ago and Yesterday

“Lights Out” by Edward Thomas

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The War on Christmas

A brief history of the Yuletide in America

Tree of Life

Being home for the holidays means something different this year

A Solstice Send-Off

A Slavic folktale to tell around the holiday fire

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine

Cudillero

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

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

Birthday Boy

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