Father Figures

Fourteen books to celebrate Father’s Day

“Sailing to Byzantium” by W. B. Yeats

Poems read aloud, beautifully

America Upside Down

Our country is in the midst of a paradigm shift

Daphne Minkoff

Preserving Old Seattle

Pandemic Preparation

How ready was the government for what everyone knew was coming?

The Antebellum Feminine Mystique

Contrary to fables, white female slave owners in the South were just as deeply invested in the institution as their male counterparts

Mansion on the Hill

And a protest on the hot pavement

The Beloved Voice

Listening as a way of healing

Writing on the Wall

Creating a home for St. Louis’s underrepresented arts scene

Chinese Whispers

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend

How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths

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

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