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