All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr

Burned

“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend

How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union by Richard Carwardine

Cudillero

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Champion of Modernism

A literary life on the edge

“Literchoor Is My Beat”: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions By Ian S. MacNiven

Breaking the Bonds

How runaway slaves got North

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad By Eric Foner

Hell and Back

No Man’s Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America By Elizabeth D. Samet

All Wrapped Up

Wat Wreck

Shots in the Dark

Lincoln and the Fourth Estate

Dark and Windy Night

Heart Devices and Desires

School Reform Fails the Test

How can our schools get better when we’ve made our teachers the problem and not the solution?

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