America’s Black Soldiers
The long history behind the Army’s Jim Crow forts
By Elizabeth D. Samet Saturday, July 11, 2020
Preaching the Floral Gospel
How the Plant Messiah saves species from the brink of extinction
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, July 10, 2020
Billy Joe Wardlow, RIP
The subject of a Scholar cover story, executed in Texas
By Lincoln Caplan Thursday, July 9, 2020
An Exchange of Bullets in Belfast
Revisiting Carol Reed’s 1947 masterpiece Odd Man Out
By David Lehman Thursday, July 9, 2020
I Feel Your Pain (or Not)
Stepping into someone else’s shoes is often easier said than done
By Marcus A. Banks Wednesday, July 8, 2020
The Great Reformatting
As performances go digital, artists must reconsider their relationship to audiences
By Theodore Gioia Monday, July 6, 2020
Read Me A Poem, Won’t You?
Behind the scenes of our sister podcast
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, July 3, 2020
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 Unionby 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 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
By Jonathan Liebson Wednesday, January 8, 2025
