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 Dispossessed
First we stopped noticing members of the working class, and now we’re convinced they don’t exist
By William Deresiewicz Friday, December 1, 2006
THE SCHOLAR AT 75: An Educated Guess
Who knew that mixing the intelligent and the idiosyncratic would yield a long life for a certain small quarterly?
By Ted Widmer Friday, December 1, 2006
THE SCHOLAR AT 75: Postcards from the Past
Pressing questions and persistent vitality
By Richard E. Nicholls Friday, December 1, 2006
Not Compassionate, Not Conservative
A political traditionalist critiques our pseudo-conservative president
By Ethan Fishman Friday, December 1, 2006
Scooter and Me
Professing liberal doubt in an age of fundamentalist fervor
By Nick Bromell Friday, December 1, 2006
Fear of Falling
Working in the mop-and-bucket brigade in college created the perspectives of a lifetime
By James McConkey Friday, December 1, 2006
Glorious Dust
The posthumous masterwork of an influential black historian tells how slavery itself undermined the Confederacy
By Robert Roper Friday, December 1, 2006
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