The Cloistered Books of Peru
A convent in the Andes is home to a treasure trove of rare, and possibly unique, early volumes
By Helen Hazen Monday, March 6, 2017
Keeping Faith
After a loss from which there is no recovery, I turned to books—not for solace or forgetting, but simply to survive
By Mark Lane Monday, March 6, 2017
The Ultimate Pawn Sacrifice
My brother’s life mirrored that of Bobby Fischer, the deeply troubled chess master
By Jay Neugeboren Monday, March 6, 2017
“We Must Not Be Enemies”
Progressives who wish for a less reactionary America could begin by trying to understand the Trump voter
By Amitai Etzioni Monday, December 5, 2016
Milton Friedman’s Misadventures in China
The stubborn advocate of free markets tangles with the ideologues of a state-run economy
By Julian B. Gewirtz Monday, December 5, 2016
The Life Unlived
On W. G. Sebald and the uncertainties of time
By André Aciman Monday, December 5, 2016
Good Neighbors
When beavers came between us and a farmer down the road, we knew something more was at stake
By Tamara Dean Monday, December 5, 2016
Homebodies
A life spent mainly in the company of cats has meant relishing the comforts of domesticity and solitude
By Kyoko Mori Monday, December 5, 2016
Tales From Motor City
Left for dead yet pulsing with life again, Detroit survives as a place of inconsistency and contradiction
By Laura Bernstein-Machlay Monday, December 5, 2016
The Last Bursts of Memory
As my father’s dementia progressed, the stories of his life became less accurate but more vivid
By James VanOosting Monday, December 5, 2016
Rage, Muse
The novels that revisit Greek myths, giving voice to the women who were scorned, wronged, or forgotten
By Wendy Smith Thursday, August 1, 2024
Martha Foley’s Granddaughters
What the esteemed literary editor never knew about the life of her troubled son, David Burnett
By Jay Neugeboren Thursday, July 18, 2024
To Catch a Sunset
Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love
By Sandra Beasley Thursday, July 11, 2024
The Next New Thing
In architecture, the gulf between the traditional and the modern seems wider than ever before
By Witold Rybczynski Thursday, July 4, 2024
Imperfecta
Her brother’s disease leads a writer to challenge how we conceive of human abnormality in the emerging era of gene editing
By Pamela Haag Thursday, June 20, 2024
The Widower’s Lament 
After the death of the poet Wendy Barker, her grieving husband turns to the literature of loss
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, March 4, 2024
The World at the End of a Line
The grandson of one of American literature’s Lost Generation novelists reflects on his namesake’s love of the sea
By John Dos Passos Coggin Thursday, April 13, 2023
The Goddess Complex
A set of revered stone deities was stolen from a temple in northwestern India; their story can tell us much about our current reckoning with antiquities trafficking
By Elizabeth Kadetsky Thursday, March 2, 2023
Last Rites and Comic Flights
A funeral in a 1984 Japanese film offers moments of slapstick amid the solemnity
By Pico Iyer Thursday, July 28, 2022
The Believer
When nobody would touch Joyce’s manuscript, Sylvia Beach stepped in
By Keri Walsh Wednesday, June 15, 2022
