Nationalist Anthems
Remembering a time when composers mattered more
By Sudip Bose Monday, December 2, 2019
Dangerous Melodies by Jonathan Rosenberg
A Transcendentalist at Work
Thoreau spent his last dozen years in this garret, making sense of what he could see from his windows
By Richard Higgins Monday, December 2, 2019
Encounters Of f the Page
After conducting 250 author interviews over four decades, I’m still engaged but a lot less awestruck
By Wendy Smith Monday, December 2, 2019
Alternate Universes
Quentin Tarantino has, over the course of his career, reimagined the art of filmmaking
By Jerome Charyn Monday, December 2, 2019
Pursuing the White Whale
A briny exploration of Melville’s greatest work
By William Howarth Monday, December 2, 2019
Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick by Richard J. King
Norman Maclean and Me
Advice for living and drinking from the author of A River Runs Through It
By Rebecca McCarthy Monday, December 2, 2019
Visible Man
An intimate view of a great American writer
By Randall Kenan Monday, December 2, 2019
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellisonedited by John F. Callahan and Marc C. Conner
History, Alive and Well
A writer’s tour of the Soviet world, 30 years after its collapse
By Graeme Wood Monday, December 2, 2019
Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europeby Rory MacLean
This Man Should Not Be Executed
Billy Joe Wardlow murdered a man, but mitigating facts say he should not pay for that crime with his life
By Lincoln Caplan Monday, December 2, 2019
A Biographer Looks Back
A noted practitioner reveals her tricks of the trade
By Ann Jefferson Monday, December 2, 2019
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Meby Deirdre Bair
A Founding Class
Two new studies of the man from Monticello
By Henry Wiencek Monday, December 2, 2019
Thomas Jefferson’s Education by Alan TaylorRevolutionary Brothers by Tom Chaffin
The Greatest Sexual Revolution
How World War II prefigured the ’60s
By Jon Zobenica Monday, December 2, 2019
Questions of Inspiration
Should we try to see the poet in her poetry?
By Rachel Hadas Monday, December 2, 2019
Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishopby Thomas Travisano
Changing Trains
In Stuttgart, in 1943, my mother escaped bombs falling on the station. Has her terror expressed itself in me?
By Catharina Coenen Monday, December 2, 2019
