Writing in the Wings
An excerpt from A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas by Dan O’Brien
By Jayne Ross Tuesday, September 14, 2021
A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas Dan O’Brien
“My Philosophy of Life” by John Ashbery
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, September 14, 2021
An Open Debate
Might Novak Djokovic, despite his loss this weekend, be the greatest tennis player of all time?
By Eric Wills Monday, September 13, 2021
Mumbai: A Nation Betrayed, A People Forsaken
An existential crisis
By Murzban F. Shroff Monday, September 13, 2021
Taking the Long View
Remembering the terror of a pleasant, late-summer morning
By Jonathan Liebson Saturday, September 11, 2021
Drawing in Young Readers
The alchemy of children’s illustration
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, September 10, 2021
On Our Knees
What the history of a gesture can tell us about Black creative power
By Farah Peterson Tuesday, September 7, 2021
“The Day Is Done” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, September 7, 2021
“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
