Sign inGet started
365 Books: A Year of Mourning and of Joy

365 Books: A Year of Mourning and of Joy

Fourteen years ago, my oldest sister died of cancer. Three years later, I began a year of reading a book a day as a way to cope with my…
Go to the profile of Nina Sankovitch
Nina Sankovitch
Writing History, My Own and Others’

Writing History, My Own and Others’

I have written three books, and am currently at work on a fourth, titled The Rebels of Braintree and coming out from St. Martin’s Press in…
Go to the profile of Nina Sankovitch
Nina Sankovitch
Diana Athill, Full of Desire Until the Very End

Diana Athill, Full of Desire Until the Very End

Diana Athill took chances, made mistakes, picked herself up, and kept going not out of sheer grit but out of her sheer love of living.
Go to the profile of Nina Sankovitch
Nina Sankovitch
Beating January

Beating January

Ten years ago I was in the first months of my year of reading a book a day. And for the first time in years, I did not suffer the January…
Go to the profile of Nina Sankovitch
Nina Sankovitch
Honor in the Civil War, Then and Now

Honor in the Civil War, Then and Now

John Kelly describes the Civil War as arising out of a failure “to compromise”; he also cautions against applying contemporary standards of…
Go to the profile of Nina Sankovitch
Nina Sankovitch
Returning to Therapy

Returning to Therapy

Book therapy, that is. Eight years ago I began my year of reading a book a day. I was looking for escape, wisdom, comfort, and clarity…
Go to the profile of Nina Sankovitch
Nina Sankovitch
The Soul of a Book Lover

The Soul of a Book Lover

Go to the profile of Nina Sankovitch
Nina Sankovitch
Diagnosing the Lowells

Diagnosing the Lowells

In her latest book, Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison uses Robert Lowell’s medical records to explore the…
Go to the profile of Nina Sankovitch
Nina Sankovitch
The Lowells and the Community of America

The Lowells and the Community of America

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, the Lowells of Massachusetts faced the same overriding question that Americans face today: what…
Go to the profile of Nina Sankovitch
Nina Sankovitch
About Nina SankovitchLatest StoriesArchiveAbout MediumTermsPrivacy