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
Moral Principle vs. Military Necessity
The first code of conduct during warfare, created by a Civil War–era Prussian immigrant, reflected ambiguities we struggle with to this day
By David Bosco Saturday, December 1, 2007
Dreaming of a Democratic Russia
Memories of a year in Moscow promoting a post-Soviet political process, an undertaking that now seems futile
By Sarah E. Mendelson Saturday, December 1, 2007
The Daily Miracle
Life with the mavericks and oddballs at the Herald Tribune
By William Zinsser Saturday, December 1, 2007
Cuss Time
By limiting freedom of expression, we take away thoughts and ideas before they have the opportunity to hatch
By Jill McCorkle Saturday, December 1, 2007
Alone at the Movies
My days in the dark with Robert Altman and Woody Allen
By Mark Edmundson Saturday, December 1, 2007
Balanchine’s Cabinet
A young woman wins a drawing and learns to give and to receive
By Ann Hagman Cardinal Saturday, December 1, 2007
Confluences
As a beloved uncle makes his final journey in the wilderness, a new life begins
By Jennifer Sinor Saturday, December 1, 2007
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