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 Christophe by 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
The Snow Maiden
Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice
By Stephanie Bastek Monday, December 30, 2024
Ho Ho Horror
Why not make this Christmas a little darker?
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, December 27, 2024
A Whale of a Story
The parallel lives of Moby-Dick’s creator and the historian who rescued him from obscurity
By Steven G. Kellman Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times by Aaron Sachs
“I Love to See the Summer Beaming Forth” by John Clare
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Bird of America
Jack E. Davis on how we revere and revile the bald eagle
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, May 27, 2022
The Dinner Party
Certain things shouldn’t be brought up at the dinner table, but in our fraught time, that’s nearly impossible
By Laura Bernstein-Machlay Thursday, May 26, 2022
From Counterculture to Culture
How a teenage rebel rose to the summit of British literary life
By N. S. Thompson Monday, May 23, 2022
Life Is a Highway
Dan Albert on how car culture swallowed America
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, May 20, 2022
