The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday
Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 31, 2025
“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 28, 2025
The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend
How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths
By Janna Malamud Smith Friday, January 24, 2025
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Thursday, January 23, 2025
Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union by Richard Carwardine
“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
I Think, Therefore …
How much can we really know about the mystery of ourselves?
By Kathryn Tabb Monday, February 29, 2016
The Tides of the Mindby David Gelernter / On Being Human by Jerome Kagan
The Sound of Silence
Jean Sibelius and the symphony that never was
By Sudip Bose Monday, February 29, 2016
The Remains of My Days
Fond and fading memories of a robust literary life
By Doris Grumbach Monday, February 29, 2016
As the Bard Turns
The international appeal of the man from Stratford-upon-Avon
By Wendy Smith Monday, February 29, 2016
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe By Andrew Dickson
Off to See the Wizard
Finding the virtues of Homer, Plato, and Jesus in Technicolor Oz
By Mark Edmundson Monday, February 29, 2016
The Fruit of the Real
On the Russian dolls nested in the poems of Maureen N. McLane
By Langdon Hammer Monday, February 29, 2016
Meditation on a Rat
Who would have thought that this unlikely creature could help make a family whole again?
By Lucy Ferriss Monday, February 29, 2016
Under the Lid
Amid the the terrors of Pinochet’s Chile, a scornful witch exacts her haunting revenge
By Idra Novey Monday, February 29, 2016
Three Poems
Mz N Nothing, Mz N Enough, Mz N Goodbye Hello, Mz N Considers the Years and Centuries
By Maureen N. McLane Monday, February 29, 2016
