As the Bard Turns
The international appeal of the man from Stratford-upon-Avon
By Wendy Smith Monday, February 29, 2016
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe By Andrew Dickson
Under the Influence
Prohibition may have failed, but the abolition of drunk driving seems within reach
By Brad Edmondson Monday, February 29, 2016
Off to See the Wizard
Finding the virtues of Homer, Plato, and Jesus in Technicolor Oz
By Mark Edmundson Monday, February 29, 2016
The Fruit of the Real
On the Russian dolls nested in the poems of Maureen N. McLane
By Langdon Hammer Monday, February 29, 2016
Meditation on a Rat
Who would have thought that this unlikely creature could help make a family whole again?
By Lucy Ferriss Monday, February 29, 2016
Under the Lid
Amid the the terrors of Pinochet’s Chile, a scornful witch exacts her haunting revenge
By Idra Novey Monday, February 29, 2016
Three Poems
Mz N Nothing, Mz N Enough, Mz N Goodbye Hello, Mz N Considers the Years and Centuries
By Maureen N. McLane Monday, February 29, 2016
The Spirit of May 35th
A tale of dissidence, exile, astrophysics, and puckish wit
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom Monday, February 29, 2016
The Most Wanted Man in China By Fang Lizhi Translated by Perry Link
Island Royalty
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary
By Madison Smartt Bell Monday, January 13, 2025
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut
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
