A Million Kindnesses

Honoring Jim Lehrer, beloved newsman and friend

Robert Wilson

Revolutionary Chaos

The first-ever English translation of a 20th-century Russian masterpiece

Gary Saul Morson

William Holden, Model Prisoner

How the actor defined the ideal, postwar man

David Lehman

Why Book Reviewing Isn’t Going Anywhere

A researcher explores the future of a changing practice

Scott Nover

Thirteen of the Best Books We Read in 2019

From fiction that will pull you in to eight ways the world could end

Our Editors

A Holiday Reading Roundup

Seven books published by the Scholar’s contributors in 2019

Our Editors

10 of the Most Influential Literary Characters of All Time

James Plath

This Is What Terror Sounds Like

10 pieces to guarantee the Halloween shivers

Sudip Bose

“Advice to a Girl” by Sara Teasdale

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amanda Holmes

“miss rosie” by Lucille Clifton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amanda Holmes

“I Knew a Woman” by Theodore Roethke

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amanda Holmes

“Invictus” by William Ernest Henley

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amanda Holmes