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
Soundtrack of a Revolution
Seeing and hearing a protest explode on the streets of Santiago
By Penelope Rowlands Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Norman Maclean and Me
Advice for living and drinking from the author of A River Runs Through It
By Rebecca McCarthy Monday, December 2, 2019
Visible Man
An intimate view of a great American writer
By Randall Kenan Monday, December 2, 2019
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellisonedited by John F. Callahan and Marc C. Conner
History, Alive and Well
A writer’s tour of the Soviet world, 30 years after its collapse
By Graeme Wood Monday, December 2, 2019
Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europeby Rory MacLean
This Man Should Not Be Executed
Billy Joe Wardlow murdered a man, but mitigating facts say he should not pay for that crime with his life
By Lincoln Caplan Monday, December 2, 2019
A Biographer Looks Back
A noted practitioner reveals her tricks of the trade
By Ann Jefferson Monday, December 2, 2019
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Meby Deirdre Bair
A Founding Class
Two new studies of the man from Monticello
By Henry Wiencek Monday, December 2, 2019
Thomas Jefferson’s Education by Alan TaylorRevolutionary Brothers by Tom Chaffin
The Greatest Sexual Revolution
How World War II prefigured the ’60s
By Jon Zobenica Monday, December 2, 2019
Questions of Inspiration
Should we try to see the poet in her poetry?
By Rachel Hadas Monday, December 2, 2019
Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishopby Thomas Travisano
