Martha Foley’s Granddaughters
What the esteemed literary editor never knew about the life of her troubled son, David Burnett
By Jay Neugeboren July 18, 2024
To Catch a Sunset
Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love
By Sandra Beasley July 11, 2024
The Next New Thing
In architecture, the gulf between the traditional and the modern seems wider than ever before
By Witold Rybczynski July 4, 2024
Imperfecta
Her brother’s disease leads a writer to challenge how we conceive of human abnormality in the emerging era of gene editing
By Pamela Haag June 20, 2024
The Widower’s Lament
After the death of the poet Wendy Barker, her grieving husband turns to the literature of loss
By Steven G. Kellman March 4, 2024
The World at the End of a Line
The grandson of one of American literature’s Lost Generation novelists reflects on his namesake’s love of the sea
By John Dos Passos Coggin April 13, 2023
The Goddess Complex
A set of revered stone deities was stolen from a temple in northwestern India; their story can tell us much about our current reckoning with antiquities trafficking
By Elizabeth Kadetsky March 2, 2023
Last Rites and Comic Flights
A funeral in a 1984 Japanese film offers moments of slapstick amid the solemnity
By Pico Iyer July 28, 2022
The Believer
When nobody would touch Joyce’s manuscript, Sylvia Beach stepped in
By Keri Walsh June 15, 2022
What I Have Taught—and Learned
After 50 years as a professor, I understand that my job is to make students think hard about thinking
By William M. Chace Wednesday, December 10, 2014
For Better and for Worse
The aftermath of a disorienting divorce
By Clellan Coe Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Traveling Corpse
How an American sergeant’s journey through frigid North Russia inspired a work of historical fiction
By Andrea Barrett Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Instant Gratification
As the economy gets ever better at satisfying our immediate, self-serving needs, who is minding the future?
By Paul Roberts Monday, September 8, 2014
Why Science Is Not Enough
Only through our imagination can we know the world
By John Lukacs Monday, September 8, 2014
Going Haywire
Delusions can occur in perfectly “normal” people
By Richard Restak Monday, September 8, 2014
Frankfurt, Farewell
A family escaped the Nazis in 1939, finding refuge in America, but its hardships were far from over
By Werner Gundersheimer Monday, September 8, 2014
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