SPOTLIGHT

Spreading the Good Word

Wilfrid Sheed’s essays pulsed with the energy of midcentury America

By Kevin Fenton Thursday, April 30, 2026

SPOTLIGHT

Spreading the Good Word

Wilfrid Sheed’s essays pulsed with the energy of midcentury America

By Kevin Fenton Thursday, April 30, 2026

Asturias Days

Where Is Wilken?

Read Me a Poem

“Twilight: After Haying” by Jane Kenyon

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Article

The People’s Critic

Michael Steinberg’s profound insights on music transcended the ephemeral world of daily newspaper journalism

Web Essays

What He Stood For

How Angus Cameron, one of the most significant editors in the history of American publishing, responded to being targeted by the McCarthy blacklist

Tuning Up

Weekend Warriors

How are competitive kids’ sports changing America?

Asturias Days

Canal de Castilla

Read Me a Poem

“Before the Loon Calls”  by David Mason

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

K. Shanks

Metamorphosis

Smarty Pants Podcast

Safe From Sin

Peter Jones on what medieval psychology can do for you

Asturias Days

El Hambre

Measure by Measure

Death in Antarctica

Vaughan Williams’s Seventh Symphony

View from Rue Saint-Georges

Tabula Rasa

Thoughts on the birth of my son

Portrait of the Artist

Kathleen Vance

Traveling Landscapes

Web Essays

Hell, Yes

The long tradition of newspaper people doing their jobs in terrible circumstances

Asturias Days

Pieces of Eight

Smarty Pants Podcast

Wimbledon Unwound

The surprising sexual politics of tennis

Measure by Measure

Expanding the List

More essential American symphonies

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