When history, myth, and memory clash
An interview with John Garrison Marks on understanding George Washington’s legacy of slavery.
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A brilliant and timeless classic that is about so much more than a game
John McPhee wrote one of the great tennis books of all time. It is about so much more than a game.
Possibility and promise have long been contested
Ed Ayers looks at American history to find contested visions, but also hope for our future.
A constant movement into an endless mystery
The essential elements of the Christian life. Remembering Irene Ann Holsey Colando.
Standing in a present that had once been an unimaginable future
Solnit on how the next era comes after the end of the last one. In between comes a lot of falling apart.
The return of the septuagenarian sleuths
Richard Osman’s second installment of the Thursday Murder Club is just as delightful as the debut.
From the bookshelf: May 2026
Five books. Every month. A variety of topics from different genres. Here is the list from May 2026.
Navigating small town dynamics
An early work in the Maigret series leads the reader to consider the human condition in all its shades.
With one foot in fiction and the other in memoir
Annie Ernaux has produced “a deceptively simple book and a profoundly disarming one.”
Declaring our independence
How a declaration in 1776 became the genre-defining document that changed the world.
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