Tongass National Park

Preserving the Wild

What’s next for America’s largest national forest?

Piglets

The Piggies’ Tale

“The Listeners” by Walter de La Mare

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Streetcar

’Tis the Season

“Forgotten As If You Never Were” by Mahmoud Darwish

Poems read aloud, beautifully

books

Thirteen of the Best Books We Read in 2019

From fiction that will pull you in to eight ways the world could end

Christmas lights

A Christmas Carol

“Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School” by Jane Kenyon

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Bookshelves

A Holiday Reading Roundup

Seven books published by the Scholar’s contributors in 2019

Holly Osborne

Blades of Grass

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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