SPOTLIGHT

Just Yesterday

By Clellan Coe Wednesday, February 5, 2025

SPOTLIGHT

Just Yesterday

By Clellan Coe Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Smarty Pants Podcast

Daughters of War

Writing women back into battle

Read Me a Poem

“Daffodils” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Shelf Life

On the Frontlines

An excerpt from Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler

Web Essays

The Ritual of Renewal

Forget decluttering—I need to be surrounded by my library books

View from Rue Saint-Georges

A Life Off-track

A talented historian’s tragic end

Web Essays

A Conversation With the Novelist

The Scholar‘s online book club meets Alice McDermott

Why Not?

Portrait of the Artist

Brenda Mallory

Repurposed Reality

Smarty Pants Podcast

Not Ready to Make Nice

Meet Lillian Smith, forgotten southern radical

Read Me a Poem

“The Frog Prince” by Stevie Smith

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Smarty Pants Podcast

The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday

Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history

Book Reviews

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Asturias Days

Burned

Read Me a Poem

“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

Article

The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend

How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)
Book Reviews

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Asturias Days

Cudillero

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