“Snake” by D. H. Lawrence

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Jason Middlebrook

Tree rings in time

Others

Too many people in the world isn’t the problem—people are the problem

The Sound of the Picturesque

Charles Ives and the Visual

Battle Hymns

Charles Ives and the Civil War

Cancer

“The Bird of Night” by Randall Jarrell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Celebrating an American Icon

Anchoring Shards of Memory

We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both
composers mined the past to root themselves in an unstable present

The Power of the Common Soul

Ives, music-making, and hope

In the Endless Arctic Light

A journey to the far north of Norway means confronting our changing climate

The Bears

“Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Family/History

David Levering Lewis digs into his own origin story

In the Lions’ Studio

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equationby Kenneth Turan

Such People

“My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer” by Mark Strand

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Kyung Kim

Far over the misty mountains

The Fair Fields

Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil

Just Yesterday

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