The Patron Subjects

Who were the Wertheimers, the family that sat for a dozen of John Singer Sargent’s paintings?

Heart of Semi-Darkness

A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors

Reborn in the City of Light

At a time when Paris was an incubator of modernism, a group of bold American women arrived to make art out of their lives

Thoreau’s Pencils

How might a newly discovered
connection to slavery change
our understanding of an abolitionist
hero and his writing?

Look Out!

Why did it take so long to protect
spectators of America’s favorite pastime?

A Giant of a Man

The legacy of Willie Mays and the Birmingham ballpark where he first made his mark

Adventures With Jean

Striking up a friendship with an older writer meant accepting the risk of getting hurt

A Poet of the Soil

The legacy of a writer who struggled with his celebrity

The Letters of Seamus Heaney selected and edited by Christopher Reid

For Want of Touch

The astonishing breadth of our passions

Teach the Conflicts

It’s natural—and right—to foster
disagreement in the classroom

Silent Partner

The union that may have made possible a writer’s late flourishing

A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevensonby Camille Peri

From: “Gravity Archives”
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Schmaltz of Significance

How the first talkie treated the myth of the melting pot

Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singerby Richard Bernstein

Remembering James Baldwin

Field Notes
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Recollections of Jim Harrison

Happy Birthday, Mr. Ives

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The knowledge of approaching death may allow some of us to experience time in new and liberating ways

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