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14 Books to Read, Come Hell or High Water

By Our Editors | 08/24/2017 |

Part two of our H₂0 series—opening the literary floodgates

10 Books to Read—And Not a Drop to Drink

By Our Editors | 08/01/2017 |

Dry salvages that will make you thirsty—part one of our H₂0 reading series

The 11 Best Literary Feasts

By Our Editors | 06/27/2017 |

Our favorite fictional culinary scenes

Sadness, Irony, and Equilibrium

By Phillip Lopate | 01/27/2017 |

When art turns blue

The Thing About Books

By Jethro K. Lieberman | 09/06/2016 |

Why downsizing to a mere 650 boxes of them makes good sense

English Women Novelists

By Phillip Lopate | 06/24/2016 |

Catching up

Don’t Race Through a Great Book

By Paula Marantz Cohen | 04/11/2016 |

How to Read Dante in the 21st Century

By Joseph Luzzi | 03/22/2016 |

Breaking the code of “The Divine Comedy” with patient reverence

Graveyard Clay and The Dirty Dust

By Stephanie Bastek | 03/16/2016 |

Compare two translations of “Cré na Cille,” Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Irish masterpiece

I Think, Therefore …

By Kathryn Tabb | 02/29/2016 |

How much can we really know about the mystery of ourselves?