The Guru of Athens
Can age-old philosophy lead the way to happiness?
By Caroline Alexander Monday, December 3, 2018
Aristotle's Way by Edith Hall
Seven New Poems by Walt Whitman
“Sometimes I Dream That I Am Not Walt Whitman,” “Let Them Say Whatever They Want,” “Returning to the Sea-Shore,” “I Hear It Is Charged Against Me,” “Like a Ghost I Returned,” and “Some Tuesdays I Go to Lisbon”
By Joseph Harrison Monday, December 3, 2018
Launching the Greatest Fleet
How American war surplus helped build the world’s most successful merchant marine
By John Psaropoulos Monday, December 3, 2018
Making Himself at Home
A German-born composer and his English oratorios
By Sudip Bose Monday, December 3, 2018
Handel in London by Jane Glover
Come to the Cabaret
Remembering Mabel Mercer, whose voice was intimate and wise
By Willard Spiegelman Monday, December 3, 2018
Descent Into the Underworld
An excerpt from “How Do the Dead Walk”
By Andrew Motion Monday, December 3, 2018
The Portrait Master
Known for rendering others, a writer turns his attention inward
By Stephen Goodwin Monday, December 3, 2018
The Patch by John McPhee
The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday
Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 31, 2025
“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 28, 2025
The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend
How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths
By Janna Malamud Smith Friday, January 24, 2025
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