The Rap’s the Thing
Translating Shakespeare into the language of hip hop
By Chloe Taft Monday, December 7, 2015
Hail to the Chiefs
Leaders of the last century
By Michael Sherry Monday, December 7, 2015
The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton By William E. Leuchtenburg
The Phaedra Syndrome
Desire, denial, and the making of compelling TV
By André Aciman Monday, December 7, 2015
My Newfoundland
The sensations of landing on the island long ago haunted a writer’s final memories
By Paul West Monday, December 7, 2015
Taken to the Leader
Why did Pyongyang kidnap several dozen Japanese?
By Bruce Cumings Monday, December 7, 2015
The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea’s Abduction Project By Robert S. Boynton
A Life in Letters
A decades-long correspondence with the Italian writer Arturo Vivante covered it all: hardship, love, and the endurance of art
By Merrill Joan Gerber Monday, December 7, 2015
Vermeer and the Art of Solitude
Some works are not meant to be blockbusters
By Sudip Bose Monday, December 7, 2015
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
