SPOTLIGHT
The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend
How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths
By Janna Malamud Smith Friday, January 24, 2025
SPOTLIGHT
The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend
How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths
By Janna Malamud Smith Friday, January 24, 2025
Ode to Antwerp
Michael Pye on the golden age of the city
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, February 11, 2022
“Love After Love” by Derek Walcott
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Hoping for Recovery
The long struggle to explain and treat drug dependency
By Charlotte Bismuth Monday, February 7, 2022
Christy Matson
Picking Up the Thread
By Noelani Kirschner Monday, February 7, 2022
Reading Thucydides in a Time of Pandemic
What the Athenian historian’s insights predict about the future of our own democracy
By W. Robert Connor Saturday, February 5, 2022
Changing How America Eats
Mayukh Sen on seven immigrant cookbook writers
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, February 4, 2022
Wave to Me
There’s one thing I won’t relinquish to a pandemic that’s claimed so much
By Megan Craig Thursday, February 3, 2022
Divided Providence
Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War
By Robert Wilson Thursday, January 23, 2025
“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Keepers of the Old Ways
Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 17, 2025
Above the River of Your Longing
Two new prompts
By David Lehman Thursday, January 16, 2025
“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
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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
Aging Out
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night
By Anne Matthews Thursday, December 5, 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
Aging Out
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night
By Anne Matthews Thursday, December 5, 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
