Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics
The best of American poets and the worst of American wars met head-on 150 years ago this summer in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, his reflections on nursing...
It’s graduation time in Boston, and the Class of 2015 is asking “Now what?†If our young ones need help choosing, the market...
The book critic James Wood doesn't worry about the fate of the novel — after years of reading them, writing them, reviewing them in The...
Seymour Hersh’s LRB scoop on the execution of Osama bin Laden – too hot, apparently, for the New Yorker to handle – is a persuasive...
The Democrats’ revolt against President Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership has everything to do with the “giant sucking soundâ€...