Tangled Up in Dylan
The enduring appeal of a legendary American songwriter
By Louis P. Masur Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968–2010By Greil Marcus Bob Dylan in America By Sean Wilentz
Rereading Oliver Goldsmith’s “Deserted Village” in a Changed Ireland
By Eavan Boland Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Ode to Joy
What makes us happy?
By Priscilla Long Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science By Sissela Bok
Girl Power
The enigma who ruled her world
By Gelareh Asayesh Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Cleopatra: A Life By Stacy Schiff
From The Book of Knowledge
(The Children’s Encyclopedia/The Grolier Society, vol. 115, 1936)
By Cynthia Zarin Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Tour de Horse
A masterly retelling of a death on the Plains
By Andrew Graybill Wednesday, December 1, 2010
The Killing of Crazy Horse By Thomas Powers
Man of Letters
A novelist finds his classic voice
By Jeremy Berlin Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Saul Bellow: Letters By Benjamin Taylor
Big Muddy
The river before Mark Twain
By Bruce Falconer Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild By Lee Sandlin
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
Verde
Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew
By Jesse Lee Kercheval Thursday, December 12, 2024
Aging Out
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night
By Anne Matthews Thursday, December 5, 2024
Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Ageby James Chappel
Under a Spell Everlasting
Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war
By Samantha Rose Hill Monday, December 2, 2024
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Monday, December 2, 2024
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine
The Fair Fields 
Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil
By Rosanna Warren Monday, December 2, 2024
Ideology as Anatomy
How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives
By Sierra Bellows Monday, December 2, 2024
Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Partsby Helen King
