From Mandate to Nation State
How a failed Arab rebellion ensured Israel’s survival
By Randy Rosenthal Monday, March 6, 2023
Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by Oren Kessler
Chaucer’s Leading Lady
Marion Turner on our enduring fascination with the Wife of Bath
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, March 3, 2023
The Goddess Complex
A set of revered stone deities was stolen from a temple in northwestern India; their story can tell us much about our current reckoning with antiquities trafficking
By Elizabeth Kadetsky Thursday, March 2, 2023
“The Hospital” by Patrick Kavanagh
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, February 28, 2023
The Comic Queen of Metafiction
Gunnhild Øyehaug talks about her twisted new collection of short stories
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, February 24, 2023
Brilliant Carnage
Sam Peckinpah’s slow-motion bullet ballet
By David Lehman Thursday, February 23, 2023
“Not Only the Eskimos” by Lisel Mueller
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, February 21, 2023
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
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
