“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot

In honor of the poet’s 131st birthday

On the Turning Away

Our tendency to ignore human suffering

American flag

One For All

A sociologist’s plea for the common good

Beverly Penn

Flora Cast Eternal

De Todos Modos

“The Purist” by Ogden Nash

Poems read aloud, beautifully

License to Chill

Life slows down when you can’t drive

Pencil

A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning

Front porch

Innocence and Loss

Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915

Tomar en Dos Veces

“The Vow” by Yuliya Musakovska

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

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