Versed in Outrage

A poet’s capitulation highlights the challenges facing artists and intellectuals

Making the Most of #MeToo

A second-wave feminist on 21st-century feminism

The Virtuoso as Artist

Remembering Ruggiero Ricci on the centenary of his birth

The Devil’s Party?

Why we love Lucifer—and why Milton might have, too

Two Lines a Day

John Ryan Brubaker

Veins of Coal

My Shadow

Wonderbrain

Inside the extraordinary minds of people who feel others’ emotions, hear hallucinations, and get lost in their own homes

Who’s the Boss?

When conductor and soloist clash, a concerto performance can turn into a contest of wills

Strangers on a Train

A new perspective born of unexpected kindness

The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday

Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apartby Nicholas Carr

Burned

“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend

How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine

Cudillero

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

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