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
Fontaine-de-Vaucluse: Where the Waters Speak of Love
Reading Petrarch in Provence
By Jeffrey Tayler Monday, June 5, 2017
Found in Translation
A poet learns how to feel and see and think and sound in the language of his adopted home
By Piotr Florczyk Monday, March 6, 2017
A Brief History of Secession
Why Calexit might not be as crazy as you think
By Richard Striner Monday, March 6, 2017
Boom and Bust
Capturing the boom and bust of fracking in the Bakken
By Eli Reichman Monday, March 6, 2017
More Than Human
The dawn of a technologically enhanced super-species is upon us
By Michael Shermer Monday, March 6, 2017
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
A More Mindful Economy
Applying Buddhism to the “dismal science”
By Clair Brown Monday, March 6, 2017
Robocops and Robbers
Criminal justice in the age of digital spying and surveillance
By Jill Leovy Monday, March 6, 2017
Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman
On Political Correctness
Power, class, and the new campus religion
By William Deresiewicz Monday, March 6, 2017
