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
A Tale of War and Forgetting
Rescuing the memory of a cataclysm
By Neil Shea Monday, September 8, 2014
In the Courtyard
The smell of jasmine and the murmur of family life in prewar Damascus
By Vicki Valosik Monday, September 8, 2014
All Possible Pie
At the window of an automat, watching the world go by
By Brian Doyle Friday, September 5, 2014
English vs. English
On the concrete and the abstract, the Germanic and the Latinate
By Jessica Love Thursday, September 4, 2014
The Luxury of a Toilet
The necessity is unobtainable for more than a billion people
By Josie Glausiusz Wednesday, September 3, 2014
