A blog about the New York literary life by Phillip Lopate, celebrated essayist, director of Columbia University’s nonfiction program, editor of The Art of the Personal Essay, and author of Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body, and To Show and to Tell, among other books.

A blog about classical music from Sudip Bose, the Scholar’s managing editor.

A blog about expatriate life in Paris. Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author of a memoir, Losing My Cool. He is at work on a book about how we define race in America, told through his own experience of growing up with a white mother and black father, and of raising a blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter in France.

Each Tuesday, our readers contribute a new line of verse—or a completed poem—in collaboration with a renowned poet.

Each Monday, we interview an artist about his or her work.