“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 Christophe by 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
Second-Class Students No More
An excerpt from Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University by Theodore D. Segal
By Jayne Ross Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke UniversityTheodore D. Segal
“Tonight I Can Write (the Saddest Lines)” by Pablo Neruda
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 26, 2021
God, Can You Hear Me?
Many young evangelicals are beginning to question the packaged truths offered in megachurches
By T. M. Luhrmann Monday, January 25, 2021
Death in Papua New Guinea
Chronicling the disappearance of an entire language—and everything else that goes with it
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 22, 2021
Rage Against Reason
What Seneca could teach us about our inflamed passions
By John T. Scott and Robert Zaretsky Thursday, January 21, 2021
“You, Andrew Marvell” by Archibald MacLeish
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Birthright Citizens and Paper Sons
The complicated case of an American-born child of Chinese immigrants
By Amanda Frost Monday, January 18, 2021
