“The Bird of Night” by Randall Jarrell
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Anchoring Shards of Memory
We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both
composers mined the past to root themselves in an unstable present
By Joseph Horowitz Monday, September 9, 2024
The Power of the Common Soul
Ives, music-making, and hope
By J. Peter Burkholder Monday, September 9, 2024
A Toothsome Tale
Bill Schutt chomps through millennia to share the story of our pearly whites
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, September 6, 2024
Writer on Board
The cruise story from Twain to Shteyngart
By Thomas Swick Thursday, September 5, 2024
Moondance
Experience the marvel that is
night-blooming tobacco
By Leigh Ann Henion Tuesday, September 3, 2024
“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
“The Horses” by Edwin Muir
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 31, 2024
