Rocket Men

A daughter explores the male-dominated universe of her father

Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science By M. G. Lord

End of Discussion

Why I’m leaving my book group

Another Washington Leak

Class Warfare

It is wrong that America’s most privileged families have abandoned military service

Change

Paris: The Death of Derrida

Fear Itself

Two Formalists

Remembering Thom Gunn and Anthony Hecht

So Help Me God

What all fifty-four inaugural addresses, taken as one long book, tell us about American history

What We Got Wrong

How Arabs look at the self, their society, and their political institutions

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

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

The Weight of a Stone

Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology

New Year, Old Year

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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