Spotlight
Through a Lens Darkly
A photographer on how we represent conflict
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, November 16, 2018
Read Me a Poem
“The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” by Edward Lear
Poems read aloud, beautifully
by Amanda Holmes | Friday, November 16, 2018
Measure by Measure
The Virtuoso as Aristocrat
Jorge Bolet and one memorable night in 1974
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, November 15, 2018
View from Rue Saint-Georges
Guessing Games
What you can tell about people—and what you can’t
by Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Smarty Pants Podcast
Too Much Future
How East German punks tore down the Berlin Wall
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, November 09, 2018
Read Me a Poem
“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop
Poems read aloud, beautifully
by Amanda Holmes | Friday, November 09, 2018
Measure by Measure
State of Gliss
The art of Gloria Coates
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, November 08, 2018
Current Issue
“Internet ventures have become such behemoths that the immunity they received two decades ago may no longer make sense.”—Lincoln Caplan
Plus: Laura Bernstein-Machlay sends her daughter off to college, David Gessner tests the boundaries of writing about race, and Ralph Lombreglia writes a story about drummers
Book Essay
Bringing In the Horse
Virgil’s account of the sacking of Troy has similarities to the political situation of our day
by Mary Lefkowitz
Essays
Present Tense
Even in this interminable drugstore line, my daughter’s last summer before college is slipping by far too quickly
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay
Essays
My Family’s Siberian Exile
A writer pieces together the forgotten history of life in Stalin’s special settlements
by Megan Buskey
