Lost in the Garden

One essayist’s thorny tribute to another

Jean Alexander Frater

Supporting the Substrate

The Highest Achievement of American Film Noir

Stanwyck, MacMurray, and Robinson at their best in Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity

Dark White

The caste status of Arabs in the United States and Germany

Batman Rides Again

“The Quarrel” by Katherine Mansfield

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Remaking a Killing

How a brutal double homicide in 19th-century France enflamed the imagination of a great Russian novelist

<em>The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece</em> by Kevin Birmingham

Why We Need the Humanities

The word itself contains the answer

The Sorceresses’ Amanuensis

Alice Hoffman on the conclusion of the Practical Magic series

It’s Come to This

St. Paul: 2020

“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

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

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