Arts & Culture
The women who would be war heroes
Kristin Hannah’s novel is based on military nurses’ firsthand accounts of their experiences in Vietnam.
Pages soaked in mystery
Rebecca McCarthy traces Norman Maclean’s poetic sensibilities from his University of Chicago classroom to A River Runs Through It.
After every election, I turn to Tolstoy
His challenges to the left and right alike are devastating and timely.
Writing on my hand
Stepping forward to receive the host, I spread out my palms before I remember these aide memoires ...
Murmuration
On a sullen December afternoon I turn a corner into a Hitchcock movie Five hundred starlings staring at me...
What is poetry in the face of war?
Mosab Abu Toha’s poems are about Gaza. Reading them I saw all people who suffer.