“Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Coronavirus: This Is Not a Plague

The metaphor obscures clear thinking

A Good Time for Opera

Taking It to the Street

The pandemic as seen from my front porch

A Century-Old Immune-System Booster?

One widely used TB vaccine might be offering some protection

Epitaph for a Genre

Crime Doesn’t Pay in The Killing

Wind and Rain

The Anxiety of Culpability

The limits of what we can know and what we can do about it

“Driving Glove” by Claudia Emerson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Lindsey Weber

Relationships that define us

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

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