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 Christophe by 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 Age by 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 Union by 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
Progress Report, Autumn 2019
Old rice made new, women inventors, cli-fi hits the art world
By Rebecca McCarthy Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Ghana: A Burning Problem
How to replace toxic scrap-tire fires with a more sustainable alternative
By Rob G. Green Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Downsized Living
Escaping the city, a writer finds contentment in a small town
By Bruce Falconer Tuesday, September 3, 2019
If You Lived Here You’d Be Home by Nowby Christopher Ingraham
Ten Sights (I Wish I’d Seen)
Purple ocean’s majesty, the dodo, and other wonderful things
By Priscilla Long Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Bonanza of Greed
Myths and lies will, if we let them, spell the end of the public domain
By Verlyn Klinkenborg Monday, June 3, 2019
This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American Westby Christopher Ketcham
Finding Your Voice
How one writer discovered his when he stopped looking for it and learned instead to listen
By Larry Woiwode Monday, June 3, 2019
Our Fate Is in the Stars
Today’s space program still does amazing things, but nothing like Apollo. It’s time to begin again.
By George Musser Monday, June 3, 2019
Southern Secrets
Three very different women haunted by the past
By Nancy Isenberg Monday, June 3, 2019
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of Americaby Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
