Where Does American History Begin?
Mixing geography with invention, the first explorers and mapmakers made the New World a very hard place to pin down
By Ted Widmer Monday, September 1, 2008
Something Called Terrorism
In a speech given at Harvard 22 years ago
and never before published, Leonard Bernstein
offered a warning that remains timely
By Leonard Bernstein Monday, September 1, 2008
Shaking Habit’s House
Critic James Wood preaches a return to the realism of Flaubert
By Sarah L. Courteau Monday, September 1, 2008
How Fiction Works By James Wood, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Most Important Election in History
Is it possible to elect a president without invoking that phrase?
By Christopher Clausen Monday, September 1, 2008
The New Old Way of Learning Languages
Now all but vanished, a once-popular system of reading Greek and Latin classics could revitalize modern teaching methods
By Ernest Blum Monday, September 1, 2008
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
