Pandemic Preparation

How ready was the government for what everyone knew was coming?

The Antebellum Feminine Mystique

Contrary to fables, white female slave owners in the South were just as deeply invested in the institution as their male counterparts

Mansion on the Hill

And a protest on the hot pavement

The Beloved Voice

Listening as a way of healing

Writing on the Wall

Creating a home for St. Louis’s underrepresented arts scene

Chinese Whispers

Please, Sir, I Want Some More

Charles Dickens died 150 years ago today

“Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Movement and Stillness

Quarantine and sculpture in the First Cemetery of Athens

Still Junk Science

How scientific inquiry has been complicit in, or explicitly aligned with, racism and white supremacy

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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