“Because It’s Good to Keep Things Straight” by Kenneth Patchen
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, April 14, 2020
House Call
In this time of quarantine, the comfort of escaping into fictional spaces
By Hal Sundt Friday, April 10, 2020
Dressing for Disaster
What does what we wear say about us?
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, April 10, 2020
Life and Death Entertainments
10 Underappreciated Classic Mysteries
By LeRoy Panek Tuesday, April 7, 2020
“Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Coronavirus: This Is Not a Plague
The metaphor obscures clear thinking
By Philip Alcabes Monday, April 6, 2020
“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Keepers of the Old Ways
Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 17, 2025
“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Island Royalty
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary
By Madison Smartt Bell Monday, January 13, 2025
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut
The Writer in the Family
The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero
By Jonathan Liebson Wednesday, January 8, 2025
