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
“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
Carnival of the Animals
The Italian artist Carpaccio cast a careful, loving eye on his many nonhuman subjects
By Jan Morris Monday, September 8, 2014
Anything Goes
Prose for the people
By Rachel Hadas Monday, September 8, 2014
The Sense of Style By Steven Pinker
Why Science Is Not Enough
Only through our imagination can we know the world
By John Lukacs Monday, September 8, 2014
Our Beastly Friends
A literary walk on the wild side
By Miranda Weiss Monday, September 8, 2014
Zoologies By Alison Hawthorne Deming
Going Haywire
Delusions can occur in perfectly “normal” people
By Richard Restak Monday, September 8, 2014
Rebuilding The Mack
Is the Glasgow School of Art truly irreplaceable?
By Witold Rybczynski Monday, September 8, 2014
Frozen Hell
An expedition gone wrong
By John Vaillant Monday, September 8, 2014
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette By Hampton Sides
