The Work of Death
How the Civil War changed forever Americans’ relationship with mortality
By Ernest B. Furgurson Saturday, December 1, 2007
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War By Drew Gilpin Faust
On the Road to Nowhere
Tom Stoppard’s Russian intellectuals take a wrong turn with Hegel, just as Edmund Wilson once did with Marx
By John Patrick Diggins Saturday, December 1, 2007
Dreaming of a Democratic Russia
Memories of a year in Moscow promoting a post-Soviet political process, an undertaking that now seems futile
By Sarah E. Mendelson Saturday, December 1, 2007
The Daily Miracle
Life with the mavericks and oddballs at the Herald Tribune
By William Zinsser Saturday, December 1, 2007
Cuss Time
By limiting freedom of expression, we take away thoughts and ideas before they have the opportunity to hatch
By Jill McCorkle Saturday, December 1, 2007
The Quiet Sideman
Tenor saxist ‘Chu’ Berry emerged from the pack at the end of his short life
By Colin Fleming Saturday, December 1, 2007
Alone at the Movies
My days in the dark with Robert Altman and Woody Allen
By Mark Edmundson Saturday, December 1, 2007
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
