The morning was another foggy one, the mass of gray thinning as I jogged through it. But at the brink of the hill where I stopped to view the parishes of Cabueñes and Somió, spread out below and…

Why treating leakers as spies puts journalists at legal risk

The strange pleasure of sports highlights

Psychopharmacology has not lived up to its early promise

Some fragmented poems are complete as they stand: Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” is the cardinal example, along with some of Emily Dickinson’s enigmatic jottings. Still, a number of her untitled fragments…

Amanda Holmes reads William Carlos Williams’s poem, “To a Poor Old Woman.” Have a suggestion for a poem? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a…

Narrative’s Eleventh Annual Poetry Contest runs from May 13 until July 14. In a continuing effort to encourage and support talented poets, we’re offering prizes and widespread publicity to all

How movement, gesture, and spatial reasoning form the foundation of thoughts

I use a lot of tomato in my cooking. There’s tomato sauce for pasta, spinach lasagna, and eggplant parmesan, and whole tomato for an eggplant, onion, and béchamel dish that, no matter the number of…

Or, when is an American symphony not American enough?

A new volume commemorates the work of a brilliant photographer of the 1960s

A philosopher digs into the subversive meaning of “cuteness”

What does it mean when you don’t want your own child?

My mother spent a year in Edinburgh as a college student, and afterward she hitched through France with two girlfriends. She remembers sitting in a car, a friend by her side, the other up front, their…

The automobile’s appeal is in decline thanks to the proliferation of alternatives

How “Winesburg, Ohio” changed American literature.

An excerpt from Flint Fights Back by Benjamin J. Pauli

Fragments are underrated. Among aspiring poets, who wouldn’t be tempted to finish what an admirable precursor began and abandoned? If the best prompts are also the most challenging, it would be hard…

How Big Tech’s intrusion into public and private life undermines the promise of democracy

The philosophical currents that shaped our nation