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Fiction and literature

Diary: Val McDermid, Deep Winter

Three scenes from Scottish midwinter

Dec 17, 2025

Diary: Jason Allen-Paisant, Plants and Dreaming

Did I know the concept of “getting bored”? The unhurried rhythm of the farm and poetry

Dec 10, 2025

Review: Barry Yourgrau, A Neo-Nazi in Iceland

A mostly invented regular boy, on a dark path

Nov 14, 2025

Review: Tracy Daugherty on Peter Matthiessen

When cataloguing a subject’s contradictions reveals more than the biographer intends

Oct 29, 2025

Review: Anthony Domestico on Muriel Spark

A disordered perfectionist

Oct 15, 2025

Ann’s Notebooks

Meet Our Winter 2025–26 Partner Bookstore! Baldwin & Co

“Read read read. Never stop reading” —James Baldwin

Nov 30, 2025 • Ann Kjellberg

Notebook: (2) Days of Arts and Letters, Two Southern Festivals

Fruits of literature-in-place

Nov 12, 2025 • Ann Kjellberg

Notebook: (1) Days of Arts and Letters, Two Southern Festivals

Keeping it going: The Berry Center’s Kentucky Arts and Letters Day and the Nashville’s Southern Festival of Books

Nov 11, 2025 • Ann Kjellberg

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History and society

Review: Hugh Eakin on “Stan and Gus”

A dual biography of Stanford White and Augustus Saint-Gaudens considers art, money, friendship, and infamy

Nov 5, 2025

Diary: Peter Brooks on “Viewpoint Diversity”

Can compulsory ideas contribute to the pursuit of knowledge?

Oct 22, 2025

Review: James Fallows on William F. Buckley, Jr.

A life of urbanity and charm, that paved the way for much that is dark and destructive in our time

Oct 1, 2025

Review: John Banville, Roger Shattuck and the “Wild Boy of Aveyron“

The forest boy who challenged enlightenment tenets about what it means to be human

Sep 24, 2025

Review: Allen Callahan on Augustine the African

A new book offers insight on how Christianity coalesced around the imperial center

Sep 17, 2025

Science and Nature

Review: Christian Caryl Among the Amur Tigers

A new book on saving the tigers of Russia’s far east

Nov 20, 2025

Review: Tracy Daugherty on Peter Matthiessen

When cataloguing a subject’s contradictions reveals more than the biographer intends

Oct 29, 2025

Review: Joy Williams on Edward Abbey and Ecotage

The book that made other environmental movements look timid, ineffectual, compromising, and dull, and its inheritors

Jul 30, 2025

Review: Sarah Chayes on Robert Macfarlane, “Is a River Alive?”

A river is a tissue of dynamic and intimate relationships between arrowing, seeping, even air-wafted water and the land around, and the creatures within…

Jul 2, 2025

Diary: Jamaica Kincaid, The Kind of Gardener I Am Not

Encountering "the grandness of a living member of the vegetable kingdom blooming without wanting to be cared about by me or anyone who came before me"

Mar 9, 2025

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