The Feminine Critique
Jessica Hopper shines a spotlight on the too-often-overlooked women of rock history
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, July 9, 2021
When History Rhymes
The Nikole Hannah-Jones controversy calls to mind an earlier racially motivated effort to stifle free speech at the University of North Carolina
By Sally Greene Thursday, July 8, 2021
Future Fears
How a 19th-century writer and polymath anticipated the modern world
By David Brown Tuesday, July 6, 2021
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science by John Tresch
“If China” by Stanislaw Baranczak
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, July 6, 2021
“Bound to Respect”
How Black and white reformers transformed the meaning of the Dred Scott decision’s most infamous line
By Jonathan W. White Saturday, July 3, 2021
Shelling Out
What seashells reveal about the future of the ocean—and our own past
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, July 2, 2021
“The Innocence of Solomon” by Nick Joaquin
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, June 29, 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
