SPOTLIGHT
The Diagnostician of Despair
Why Rousseau believed that Enlightenment values would lead us to ruin
By Robert Zaretsky Thursday, December 19, 2024
SPOTLIGHT
The Diagnostician of Despair
Why Rousseau believed that Enlightenment values would lead us to ruin
By Robert Zaretsky Thursday, December 19, 2024
Bill of Health
The shock of entering the American health-care system
By Thomas Chatterton Williams Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Hazards, Brawls, and the Value of Bad Titles
By David Lehman Tuesday, November 20, 2018
“The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” by Edward Lear
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Friday, November 16, 2018
Through a Lens Darkly
A photographer on how we represent conflict
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, November 16, 2018
The Virtuoso as Aristocrat
Jorge Bolet and one memorable night in 1974
By Sudip Bose Thursday, November 15, 2018
Guessing Games
What you can tell about people—and what you can’t
By Thomas Chatterton Williams Wednesday, November 14, 2018
“Guests” by Celia Thaxter
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Kinship and Contradictions
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, December 13, 2024
Verde
Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew
By Jesse Lee Kercheval Thursday, December 12, 2024
“Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Katie Heller Saltoun
Tenderness and grit
By Noelani Kirschner Monday, December 9, 2024
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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
