Keepers of the Old Ways
Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 17, 2025
“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
The Dope on Lance
What have we really learned about the cycling legend?
By Eric Wills Thursday, May 28, 2020
Feminism’s First Think Tank
The very different women of the Radcliffe Institute’s inaugural class
By Sandra M. Gilbert Wednesday, May 27, 2020
The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960sMaggie Doherty
Strangers and Mirrors
Orson Welles’s The Stranger (1946) and The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
By David Lehman Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Cræft in the Time of Corona
What we make with our hands tell us a lot about ourselves, even in a pandemic
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, May 22, 2020
Déconfinement
The French are cautiously re-emerging into a world of uncertainty
By Anne Swardson Thursday, May 21, 2020
Radical Elegies
At a time when many of us are cut off from the natural world, Wordsworth seems more essential than ever
By Jonathan Bate Thursday, May 21, 2020
The Beauty of Fluid Motion
How the future became fashionable
By Virginia Postrel Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion by Vanessa R. Schwartz
