Rebecca Gaal Photo Opener

A Beautiful Vision

Peggy’s War

A pioneering American journalist traveled the world while fighting her own battles at home

Perry: Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola

If You Frame It Like That

So much depends on the way a work is formatted

Carr: The Future of...

Our Heads in the Cloud

Oceanfront

Living in the Song

Shea: An Alaskan husky named Laban

The Barents Sea: Land of Perpetual Night

As we traveled northward, the twilight diminished, the sky grew darker, until finally our ship crossed into polar night

We’ve Got a Fight on Our Hands

Why petty conflicts are so important

Bernstein-Machlay: The human egg cherry-picks the precise sperm it wants

Why the Egg Matters

A meditation on remembrance, family, and time

Poissant: Fiction essay- Solstice

Solstice

We couldn’t advertise our grief, lest, years from now, friends and family would watch us sideways, waiting for an explosion from the bomb that never went off.

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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