Over There
A pugnacious public intellectual looks to Europe for his ideal
By Jean Bethke Elshtain Sunday, June 1, 2008
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century By Tony Judt
Intimacy
Revisiting the gritty Roman neighborhood of his youth, a writer discovers a world of his own invention
By André Aciman Sunday, June 1, 2008
Pullovers
Knitting a new life in America after a mother’s suicide, long ago in Japan
By Kyoko Mori Sunday, June 1, 2008
Democracy in Three Dimensions?
How the nation’s capital rose from a fetid forest on the backs of slaves
By Heather Ewing Sunday, June 1, 2008
Washington: The Making of the American Capital By Fergus M. Bordewich
Her Own Society
When Emily Dickinson and her radical friend Thomas Wentworth Higginson met for the first time
By Brenda Wineapple Sunday, June 1, 2008
Ireland Revised
Where the Celtic Tiger came from, and where it has gone
By George O’Brien Sunday, June 1, 2008
Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change 1970–2000 By R. F. Foster
Repatriating Art
A museum director examines the controversy over whether nations own their cultural artifacts
By Susannah Rutherglen Sunday, June 1, 2008
Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage By James Cuno
The Bout
When George Plimpton, the boyish editor of The Paris Review, went three rounds with the light-heavyweight champion of the world
By Blair Fuller Sunday, June 1, 2008
Antarctica: Cold Comfort
The National Science Foundation funds dozens of projects in Antarctica to study the effects of climate change. As U.S. government agencies are stripped of their funding and autonomy, read this piece to remind yourself of the importance of scientific research.
By Emily Stone Sunday, June 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
