TV’s Founding Mothers
The women who turned the small screen into a cultural phenomenon
By Jayne Ross Monday, April 5, 2021
When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Experimental Overreach
Why doctors and researchers must ask for consent
By Philip Alcabes Saturday, April 3, 2021
Oh, Cruel Stagolee
Why you should never mess with a bad man’s hat
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, April 2, 2021
“Who Is This” by Rabindranath Tagore
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Ramona the Pest, Cleary the Friend
Remembering the prolific children’s author
By Jayne Ross Monday, March 29, 2021
Quarantining with Heidegger
For the time being, it’s salad, snuggles, and Being and Time
By Peter Filene Saturday, March 27, 2021
“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
