Hashtag Lit
Leah Price on how books were social media all along
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, April 8, 2022
The Story of a Stare Down
How two antagonists from Tudor England ended up facing each other on Fifth Avenue
By Penelope Rowlands Thursday, April 7, 2022
On the Road
An excerpt from Vagabond: Venice Beach, Slab City and Points in Between by Ceilidh Michelle
By Elizabeth Pankova Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Vagabond: Venice Beach, Slab City, and Points in Between by Ceilidh Michelle
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant” by Emily Dickinson
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, April 5, 2022
A Prophecy Unfulfilled?
What a new book and six companion videos have to say about the fate of Black classical music in America
By Mark N. Grant Saturday, April 2, 2022
No Place Is Perfect
Adrian Shirk on the search for American utopia
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, April 1, 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