On Book

August Wilson’s play just hit the big screen, but even greater rewards await on the page

The Baritone as Democrat

How Lawrence Tibbett prophesied the Metropolitan Opera crisis of today

My Cousin Manya

One survivor’s story

Writer on Board

The cruise story from Twain to Shteyngart

Nights at the Opera

Long before he wrote his masterly novels, Stendhal was transformed by the power of music

A Terrifying Delight

Following Robert Frost into the depths

Consummated in Exile

A new recording of Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances conveys the breadth of the 20th-century composer’s life’s journey

The Importance of Being Different

A travel writer’s education

Stereotypes and the City

 What to make of HBO’s attempts to diversify an iconic show?

Ripeness Is All

What may be the fate of classical music’s new superstars?

On Hospitality

Perspectives on borders and border-crossing

Hell, Yes

The long tradition of newspaper people doing their jobs in terrible circumstances

How to Be a Wolf

An ode to Anthony Bourdain

The Half-Century What If?

How would our lives be different if RFK had not been assassinated?

The Roth Years

Remembering a novelist of intellect and wit

The Great Detached

As a journalist, Tom Wolfe’s greatest asset was his emotional distance from his subjects

Red Sky in Morning, Fisherman’s Warning

Climate change in the Gulf of Maine

Idle Hands Are the Dreamer’s Tools

Why lolling about is a worthwhile pursuit

Last Words

One of the final poems that J. D. McClatchy (1945-2018) wrote

Remembering Sutherland Springs

A chronicle of a mass shooting and its aftermath

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