Kinship and Contradictions
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, December 13, 2024
Verde
Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew
By Jesse Lee Kercheval Thursday, December 12, 2024
“Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Aging Out
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night
By Anne Matthews Thursday, December 5, 2024
Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age by James Chappel
“To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing” by William Butler Yeats
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Under a Spell Everlasting
Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war
By Samantha Rose Hill Monday, December 2, 2024
Class Warfare
It is wrong that America’s most privileged families have abandoned military service
By Josiah Bunting III Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Two Formalists
Remembering Thom Gunn and Anthony Hecht
By Langdon Hammer Wednesday, December 1, 2004
So Help Me God
What all fifty-four inaugural addresses, taken as one long book, tell us about American history
By Ted Widmer Wednesday, December 1, 2004
What We Got Wrong
How Arabs look at the self, their society, and their political institutions
By Lawrence Rosen Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Point and Shoot
How the Abu Ghraib images redefine photography
By Andy Grundberg Wednesday, December 1, 2004
The Coming of the French
My life as an English professor