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
Too Much of a Good Thing
Relief at the end of summer vacation
By Thomas Chatterton Williams Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Head Cases
Field notes on a beautiful friendship
By T. M. Luhrmann Tuesday, September 3, 2019
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler
Moral Courage and the Civil War
Monuments ask us to look at the past, but how they do it exposes crucial aspects of the present and has an inescapable effect on the future
By Elizabeth D. Samet Tuesday, September 3, 2019
The Great Convergence
How continental art and literature went global
By Anka Muhlstein Tuesday, September 3, 2019
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Cultureby Orlando Figes
Reflections on a Silent Soldier
After the television cameras went away, a North Carolina city debated the future of its toppled Confederate statue
By Robin Kirk Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Image Is Not Everything
A definitive portrait of a celebrated American intellectual
By Steven G. Kellman Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Sontag: Her Life and Workby Benjamin Moser
The Crisis of University Research
Academia’s pursuit of corporate and government dollars has undermined its commitment to learning
By Richard Drake Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Spirits in the Material World
Two new books consider the past and present of Christendom
By B. D. McClay Tuesday, September 3, 2019
A Pilgrimage to Eternity by Timothy EganDominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland
