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
Touché-ing the Void
How can we live only to die?
By John Kaag Monday, November 22, 2021
The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaningby Paul Bloom
Mad Dogs and Transcendentalists
How the individualism of Emerson and Thoreau differs from today’s libertarianism
By Robert A. Gross Saturday, November 20, 2021
Nature’s Pharmacy
How ethnobotany blends past and future medicine
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, November 19, 2021
“The Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Visible Man
A writer whose early speculative fiction made him famous
By Charles Trueheart Monday, November 15, 2021
The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the Worldby Claire Tomalin
People of the Parchment
The ordinary lives hidden in medieval manuscripts
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, November 12, 2021
Her Pages Caught Fire
A new biography of a ferociously talented and determined writer
By Rosanna Warren Thursday, November 11, 2021
A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick by Cathy Curtis
