Live, Laugh, Love Ancient Philosophy
Bringing self-help back to its ancient Greek roots
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, October 11, 2019
“The Emperor of Ice Cream” by Wallace Stevens
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Friday, October 11, 2019
Porgy and Bess at the Met
The pinnacle of American classical music and the nation’s most venerable opera company have long needed each other
By Joseph Horowitz Wednesday, October 9, 2019
You Must Be Joking
A comic book, a movie, politics, and race
By Thomas Chatterton Williams Wednesday, October 9, 2019
“Lines to a Nasturtium” by Anne Spencer
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Friday, October 4, 2019
The Banjo and the Ballot Box
How country music has been used on the campaign trail—and in political office
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, October 4, 2019
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Thursday, January 23, 2025
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine
“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
