People on the Plains led quiet, anonymous lives. Until Spoon River.
Read MoreWeaving wonder out of darkness, Mary Oliver became America’s favorite poet.
Read MoreAmerica was going modern — skyscrapers, biplanes, Model T’s. Why not poetry? Harriet Monroe asked.
Read MoreThink April is “the cruelest month?” E.E. Cummings will cure your despair.
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
Read MoreFor a full year, poet Ross Gay focused on things that delight him. The result: The Book of Delights. You need this now.
Read MoreTruman Capote’s Christmas tale has been told and re-told but how much was memory and how much was fiction?
Read MoreDrafted into the Cold War, Cavendish gave Alexander Solzhenitsyn what he’d never had — a home.
Read MoreHer books forgotten, her style only a memory, Zora Neale Hurston died a pauper’s death. And then. . .
Read MoreWhen Dust Bowl refugees came to California, a newspaper sent a novelist to tell the story.
Read MoreOut of the academy and into the agora, Americans are thinking and questioning in ways that would make Socrates smile.
Read MoreThe Attic reads and reviews this curious collection of curious (and insightful) maps.
Read MoreOn the verge of Infinite Jest, DFW took a cruise. His witty, acerbic, heartfelt account bore all the brilliance of his novels.
Read MoreLong before AI and Chat GPT, Wendell Berry asked a question we should all ponder.
Read MoreAhoy, mates, all hands on deck for the Moby Dick Marathon! Bring sleeping bag and chowdah!
Read MoreThink it’s too late to do anything about global warming? Think again.
Read MoreMark Twain roamed the world, but came home to an astonishing house. “There ought to be a room in this house to swear in.”
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