You Don’t Know Jack

Bookish Pets

What Prestige Sounds Like

A Question of Honor

Cheating on campus undermines the reputation of our universities and the value of their degrees. Now is the time for students themselves to stop it

All for One and One for All?

An eminent scientist reconsiders natural selection

The Social Conquest of Earth By Edward O. Wilson

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Essays From the Edge

The Jazz Age novelist’s chronicle of his mental collapse, much derided by his critics, anticipated the rise of autobiographical writing in America

Heavenly Body

An artist’s pursuit of symmetry

Da Vinci’s Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image By Toby Lester

The Moderate

Was Ike a great president?

Eisenhower in War and Peace By Jean Edward Smith

Founder of Our Freedoms

Rhode Island’s religious tolerance

Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul By John M. Barry

What Occurred at Linz: A Memoir of Forgetting

Hitler’s hometown has disowned its most infamous son, but a writer finds signs of him everywhere

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

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

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

Birthday Boy

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