Sonic Geographer
The composer whose music bears witness to a planet in peril
By Sudip Bose Monday, October 5, 2020
A Writer by Nature
An excerpt from World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
By Jayne Ross Tuesday, September 29, 2020
The Founder and the Epidemic
Dr. Benjamin Rush, who signed the Declaration of Independence, could not save Philadelphia from yellow fever
By Bruce Kilstein Thursday, June 4, 2020
Feminism’s First Think Tank
The very different women of the Radcliffe Institute’s inaugural class
By Sandra M. Gilbert Wednesday, May 27, 2020
The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s Maggie Doherty
Farm to Fable
How a now-forgotten writer changed American agriculture
By Tim Carman Monday, May 11, 2020
The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution by Stephen Heyman
Revolutionary Chaos
The first-ever English translation of a 20th-century Russian masterpiece
By Gary Saul Morson Friday, January 17, 2020
Why Book Reviewing Isn’t Going Anywhere
A researcher explores the future of a changing practice
By Scott Nover Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Musical Chairs
A veteran cellist with the National Symphony takes a close look at the entrances and exits of world-famous conductors
By Janet Frank Monday, June 10, 2013
At Sixty-Five
After the excesses of youth and terrors of middle age, a writer faces the contingencies of being old
By Emily Fox Gordon Monday, June 10, 2013
The Teaching Cure
What teachers can learn from therapists
By Paula Marantz Cohen Tuesday, May 21, 2013
