Scott & Zelda

March 29: “Forget the past — what you can of it, and turn about and swim back home to me, to your haven for ever and ever…”  

Portrait Inside My Head

A true man of letters in poetry, novels, and memoirs, Phillip Lopate turns his hand now to another collection of essays, a volume that sprawls engagingly over such varied terrain as “My Brother the Radio Host” to “Why I Remain a Baseball...

Crimean Ghosts

March 28: “Memories of the Crimean War continue to stir profound feelings of Russian pride and resentment of the West.”  

Making a Splash

March 27: “[A]t thirty minutes after six o’clock on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 19, 1812… this country…became a nationality to be reckoned with…”