Literature
Interview: Eric G. Wilson
Why the pursuit of happiness naturally includes melancholy
June 05, 2008 |
By Megan Gambino
America's First True "Pilgrims"
An excerpt from Kenneth C. Davis's new book explains they arrived half a century before the Mayflower reached Plymouth Rock
May 23, 2008 |
By Kenneth C. Davis
The Life and Times of a Maine Island
An excerpt from a history of Frenchboro, Long Island, one of Maine's last remaining year-round island communities
May 01, 2008 |
By Dean Lawrence Lunt
The Trouble with Bottled Water
Elizabeth Royte reflects on the backlash against commercializing a natural resource and responds to reader comments
April 14, 2008 |
By Elizabeth Royte
Turn the Page
Electronic books may soon vie with library cards for space in your pocket
January 15, 2008 |
By Eric Jaffe
The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family
An excerpt from the new book by Shannon Thomas Perich
October 26, 2007 |
By Shannon Thomas Perich
Mighty Mouth
Spoken-word artist Mayda del Valle brings to life "democracy writ large in poetry"
October 2007 |
By Serena Kim
Crossing the Divide
Novelist Daniel Alarcón's writings evoke the gritty, compelling landscape of urban Latin America
October 2007 |
By Marie Arana
Creatures of the Deep!
A new book of photographs taken in the ocean depths reveals a world abounding in unimagined life
October 2007 |
By Laura Helmuth
Remembering Jack Kerouac
A friend of the author of "On the Road," published 50 years ago this month, tells why the novel still matters
September 2007 |
By Joyce Johnson
The New Civil Service
An excerpt from Rory Stewart's "The Places in Between"
September 01, 2007 |
By Rory Stewart
The American Home Front: 1941-1942
By Alistair Cooke, Atlantic Monthly Press, $24.00
June 2007 |
By Winston Groom
Interview: Daniel Gilbert
What will make you happy? A social scientist explains why it's so hard to predict
May 2007 |
By Eric Jaffe
The Epic of Gilgamesh Translation
Translated by Stephen Langdon, University of Pennsylvania
May 01, 2007 |
By Smithsonian magazine
Epic Hero
How a self-taught British genius rediscovered the Mesopotamian saga of Gilgamesh after 2,500 years
May 2007 |
By David Damrosch
Roy Richard Grinker
His new book offers a scholar's and father's perspective on autism
April 2007 |
By Arthur Allen
The Lost World of James Smithson
An excerpt from Heather Ewing's book, The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian
March 01, 2007 |
By Heather Ewing
The Stranger and the Statesman
An excerpt from Nina Burleigh's book, The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum
March 01, 2007 |
By Nina Burleigh
