Arts

The Industrial-Strength Humanist

J. Irwin Miller knew how to get things built

By Robert Campbell | Wednesday, December 1, 2004

A Sturdy Man

Notes on a human symphony

By Brian Doyle | Wednesday, December 1, 2004

Findings: Another Washington Leak

By Patricia O’Toole | Wednesday, December 1, 2004

The Thanksgiving Table

By Anne Fadiman | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Mowing

By Nicholson Baker | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Taking Leave

By André Bernard | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Henry James, Tolstoy, and My First Novel

By Cynthia Ozick | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Here’s Looking at You

By Arthur Krystal | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Love in a Box

By Andrew Hudgins | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

An Oil on Canvas

By John Updike | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Lindsey Weber

Relationships that define us

By Noelani Kirschner | Monday, February 24, 2025

“Muse Circe Reclaims Her Lucre”

Five new prompts

By David Lehman | Friday, February 21, 2025

In the Endless Arctic Light

A journey to the far north of Norway means confronting our changing climate

By Walter Nicklin | Thursday, February 20, 2025

The Bears

By Clellan Coe | Wednesday, February 19, 2025

“Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Family/History

David Levering Lewis digs into his own origin story

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday, February 14, 2025

In the Lions’ Studio

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

By Noah Isenberg | Thursday, February 13, 2025

Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equationby Kenneth Turan

Such People

By Clellan Coe | Wednesday, February 12, 2025

“My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer” by Mark Strand