“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 21, 2025
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
How a Language Dies
Chronicling the disappearance of a remote Papua New Guinean tongue—and everything else that goes with it
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, June 28, 2019
“Bessie Coleman Falling from the Sky” by Dolores Kendrick
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Friday, June 21, 2019
Crimes Against Sexuality
How true crime stories were used to fan the flames of homophobia—and let killers get away with murder
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, June 21, 2019
Selective Lip Service
Attending an elite college is not an entitlement
By Thomas Chatterton Williams Wednesday, June 19, 2019
The Great Summer Read
Why do we persist in this often futile literary quest?
By Joseph Luzzi Monday, June 17, 2019
