The Music of Painting
Seventeenth-century debates over content and form, color and line, and artifice and reality are as relevant today as ever
By Lincoln Perry Monday, June 9, 2014
The Autobiography of Biography
In which I tell how I was drawn again and again to the lives of African-American figures, and found in them the story of our times
By David Levering Lewis Monday, June 9, 2014
Beyond the Colonies
What else happened during the year of independence?
By Andrew Graybill Monday, June 9, 2014
West of the Revolution By Claudio Saunt
A Prophet Without Honor
There’s no authoritative biography yet for Joseph Smith, the notorious founding figure in Mormonism
By Alex Beam Monday, June 9, 2014
Two Philosophers
What would Kierkegaard and Hegel do about the crises of our day?
By David Lehman Monday, June 9, 2014
Man of the World
Well-traveled and erudite, John Quincy Adams sometimes had trouble appealing to his countrymen
By Annette Gordon-Reed Monday, June 9, 2014
John Quincy Adams: American Visionary By Fred Kaplan
The Fear Factor
Long-held predictions of economic chaos as baby boomers grow old are based on formulas that are just plain wrong
By Lincoln Caplan Monday, June 9, 2014
The Skeptic
A critic’s cranky charm
By Steve Lagerfeld Monday, June 9, 2014
A Literary Education and Other Essays By Joseph Epstein
Inside the Box
How we became pod people
By M. G. Lord Monday, June 9, 2014
Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace By Nikil Saval
4 Popes, 4 Saints, One New Guy
Perhaps you’ve heard the news from Rome. But what does it really have to do with the man from Assisi?
By Ingrid D. Rowland Monday, June 9, 2014
