Proust Goes to the Country Club
At a largely forgettable class reunion, remembrances of things past
By Willard Spiegelman Monday, June 9, 2014
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
“Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Tiger Mom
At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind
By Elizabeth Kadetsky Monday, March 3, 2025
Learning to Be Social
What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?
By Sally J. Scholz Monday, March 3, 2025
After the Fallout
On jellyfish babies, my father’s pain, and the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific