Don’t Forget the Death Workers
Hayley Campbell on the hidden labor after life
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, August 19, 2022
Mullet Street
On New Orleans’s most famous thoroughfare, it’s always 1986
By Wayne Curtis Thursday, August 18, 2022
Morals, Meaning, and Nonsense
Ethical inquiry requires lived experience, not just logical examination
By Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Monday, August 15, 2022
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman
When Science Is Not the Answer
Sabine Hossenfelder considers the biggest questions in physics and philosophy
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, August 12, 2022
The Affair Rekindled
Remembering the plight of Dreyfus and the effect it had on a young Marcel Proust
By Robert Zaretsky Thursday, August 11, 2022
Mob Music
T. J. English on the surprising relationship between two grand American traditions—jazz and organized crime
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, August 5, 2022
“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
“The Horses” by Edwin Muir
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 31, 2024
