Trial and Eros
When Lady Chatterley’s Lover ran afoul of Britain’s 1959 obscenity law, the resulting case had a cast worthy of P.G. Wodehouse
By Ben Yagoda Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Our Madness for War
Must we persist in using the military option when it so rarely works?
By Michael Sherry Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq By John Dower
Prozac for the Planet
Can geoengineering make the climate happy?
By Christopher Cokinos Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Human Kind
Is selflessness in our nature?
By Sissela Bok Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness By Oren Harman
Every Last One
A guy with a weakness for demography goes door to door for the census and discovers what a democracy is made of
By Brad Edmondson Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Abe’s Evolution
How Lincoln went from frontier lawyer to Great Emancipator
By Philip Dray Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery By Eric Foner
Going Home, Going Away
At a 50th high school reunion, a well-known traveler recalls his pride in the hometown he was so eager to leave behind
By Paul Theroux Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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
The Weight of a Stone
Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology
By Megan Craig Thursday, January 2, 2025
