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
The Mystery of Ales
The argument that Alger Hiss was a WWII-era Soviet asset is flawed. New evidence points to someone else
By Kai Bird and Svetlana Chervonnaya Friday, June 1, 2007
The Mystery of Ales (Expanded Version)
The argument that Alger Hiss was a WWII-era Soviet asset is flawed. New evidence points to someone else
By Kai Bird and Svetlana Chervonnaya Friday, June 1, 2007
Love on Campus
Why we should understand, and even encourage, a certain sort of erotic intensity between student and professor
By William Deresiewicz Friday, June 1, 2007
Remember Statecraft?
What diplomacy can do and why we need it more than ever
By Dennis Ross Friday, June 1, 2007
Gazing Into the Abyss
The sudden appearance of love and the galvanizing prospect of death lead a young poet back to poetry and a “hope toward God”
By Christian Wiman Friday, June 1, 2007
‘Mem, Mem, Mem’
After a stroke, a prolific novelist struggles to say how the mental world of aphasia looks and feels
By Paul West Friday, June 1, 2007
Between Two Worlds
The familar story of Pocahontas was mirrored by that of a young Englishman given as a hostage to her father
By Christopher Clausen Friday, June 1, 2007
Fragments of Paradise
Gardens like those of Friedrich II at Sanssouci help us to read the world
By Alberto Manguel Friday, June 1, 2007
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