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

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

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

Birthday Boy

The Five-Kilometer Race

A note on the seething insanity of running

Sneak Attacks (A Webcomic)

What’s that word again?

About Using That Word Nazi

Casual comparisons bespeak ignorance

Still Lives

The enduring influence of da Vinci’s anatomical drawings

The Corner

Entrepreneurship

A war story

How to Talk Shakespeare

A primer

Remembering Matthew Power

Journalist, friend, man of action

Staying Up to Speed

An experienced professor is humbled by his colleague’s knowledge and caring

Ten Best Sentences

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