Physics for the Feeble-Minded

A crash course on our boundlessly bizarre universe

Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution by Carlo Rovelli

A Tall Order

Rehabbing a century-old grain elevator

Nature on the Brain

How connecting with the green world makes us healthier

Ciudad Rodrigo

“Sonnet: Grief Dies” by Henry Timrod

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Life in Black and White

Virginia Shepley

Bridging the Divide

Remembering Robert Moses

The civil rights leader worked to raise up those at “the bottom”

Here for the Beer

Exploring ancient ales and fermentation re-creations

An Arm and a Leg

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

The Writer in the Family

The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

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