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
The Weight of a Stone
Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology
By Megan Craig Thursday, January 2, 2025
Liberty Is a Slow Fruit
Lincoln the deliberate emancipator
By Louis P. Masur Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Kerouac in His Own Words
An old friend explores his search for a new approach to the novel
By Deborah Baker Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac By Joyce Johnson
Mortify Our Wolves
The struggle back to life and faith in the face of pain and the certainty of death
By Christian Wiman Tuesday, September 4, 2012
A Monster at Large
Crime, politics, and the vagaries of Japanese justice
By James Fallows Tuesday, September 4, 2012
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished From the Streets of Tokyo — And the Evil That Swallowed Her Up By Richard Lloyd Parry
We Shall Go to Her, But She Will Not Return to Us
The prodigal daughter comes home
By Thisbe Nissen Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Love in Wartime
The epistolary romance of a Los Alamos scientist and a Radcliffe junior destined for poetic renown
By Maxine Kumin Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Letter to Posterity
A passion for philosophy led me to my first career, and a passion for art led me to a second, as a critic
By Arthur C. Danto Tuesday, September 4, 2012
