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
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
Once Upon a Time in Manchester
Hopwood DePree on the quest to restore his ancestral English seat
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, June 3, 2022
It Happened One Day in June
Why Ulysses is as vital as ever— compelling, complex, and direct
By Robert J. Seidman Wednesday, June 1, 2022
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
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
