“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 Horses” by Edwin Muir
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Tales From an Attic
Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives
By Sierra Bellows Monday, March 4, 2024
The Jazz Singer
A new biography of an American legend
By Farah Jasmine Griffin Monday, March 4, 2024
Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year by Paul Alexander
We’ve Gone Mainstream
Latinos are invisible no more
By Ilan Stavans Monday, March 4, 2024
LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minorityby Marie Arana
Acting Out
One tortuous journey from stage to screen
By Rachel Shteir Monday, March 4, 2024
Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?by Philip Gefter
Ollie Ollie Oxen Free
Shades of grief in the verse of Catherine Barnett
By Langdon Hammer Monday, March 4, 2024
Sins of the Fathers and Mothers 
On war, settlement, and collective responsibility
By Lydia Moland Monday, March 4, 2024
The Choice Is Ours
Survival of the most meaningful
By John Kaag Monday, March 4, 2024
Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply About the Meaning of Our Existenceby Samuel T. Wilkinson
