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
“The Horses” by Edwin Muir
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 31, 2024
The Snow Maiden
Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice
By Stephanie Bastek Monday, December 30, 2024
Ho Ho Horror
Why not make this Christmas a little darker?
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, December 27, 2024
“Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Have Trowel, Will Travel
A new biography of 20th-century America’s greatest landscape architect
By Penelope Rowlands Monday, December 19, 2022
I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise: A Life of Bunny Mellonby Mac Griswold
By Land and By Sea
Dorthe Nors brings us to the North Sea Coast
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, December 16, 2022
The Bully in the Ballad
Was Mississippi John Hurt really the first person to sing the tragic tale of Louis Collins?
By Eric McHenry Thursday, December 15, 2022
“I Have So Often Dreamed of You” by Robert Desnos
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Girl Troubles
Michelle Gallen talks about her new novel, Ireland in the 1990s, and finding your way in a bombed-out town
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, December 9, 2022
Declassified
How genre-bending tales of espionage emerged from a childhood of pain, anger, and deception
By James Gibney Thursday, December 8, 2022
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré Edited by Tim Cornwell; Viking, 752 pp., $40
