SPOTLIGHT
Above the River of Your Longing
Two new prompts
By David Lehman Thursday, January 16, 2025
SPOTLIGHT
Above the River of Your Longing
Two new prompts
By David Lehman Thursday, January 16, 2025
Twin Pandemics
A conversation about Covid-19 and racism with Philip Alcabes and Harriet Washington
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, July 17, 2020
Brotherly Medicine
The poet who helped bind up the nation’s wounds
By Robert Roper Thursday, July 16, 2020
The Sculptor vs. the Poet
Marble can be toppled, yet words are eternal
By A. E. Stallings Monday, July 13, 2020
America’s Black Soldiers
The long history behind the Army’s Jim Crow forts
By Elizabeth D. Samet Saturday, July 11, 2020
Preaching the Floral Gospel
How the Plant Messiah saves species from the brink of extinction
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, July 10, 2020
Billy Joe Wardlow, RIP
The subject of a Scholar cover story, executed in Texas
By Lincoln Caplan Thursday, July 9, 2020
“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Island Royalty
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary
By Madison Smartt Bell Monday, January 13, 2025
The Writer in the Family
The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero
By Jonathan Liebson Wednesday, January 8, 2025
“The Horses” by Ted Hughes
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 7, 2025
The Weight of a Stone
Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology
By Megan Craig Thursday, January 2, 2025
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Plus: Samantha Rose Hill follows Thomas Mann to Switzerland, Michael Autrey hunts for porcini, and Megan Craig searches for stability in stone
Plus: Samantha Rose Hill follows Thomas Mann to Switzerland, Michael Autrey hunts for porcini, and Megan Craig searches for stability in stone
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Monday, December 2, 2024
The Fair Fields 
Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil
By Rosanna Warren Monday, December 2, 2024
The Art of Tuning In
Celebrating 20 years of poetry in the Scholar
By Langdon Hammer Monday, December 2, 2024
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Monday, December 2, 2024
The Fair Fields
Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil
By Rosanna Warren Monday, December 2, 2024
The Art of Tuning In
Celebrating 20 years of poetry in the Scholar
By Langdon Hammer Monday, December 2, 2024
