Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson’s Four Saints sing again in new recording
Tim Page: The blunt, bracing, witty, still-relevant “bomb thrower” Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson, the music critic who “managed to demystify an art that was often regarded as otherworldly”
Theodore Dreiser, “The Village Feudists”
Ishmael in Warsaw: Daniel Aaron’s Polish Journal
Thomas Mallon on Booth Tarkington: “he sees things through to their bitter, true conclusion”
Kimberly King Parsons salutes Eileen Myles, Denis Johnson, and other voices she “would follow anywhere”
Photos: Wendell Berry and friends celebrate What I Stand On
Nathaniel Philbrick asks Why Read Moby-Dick? and many rise to the “cunning test”
Stephen Colbert’s two-minute Moby-Dick lesson is a real roller-coaster ride