You Never Step Into the Same Internet Twice

Linguist Gretchen McCulloch on the new rules of language

Spanish Fly

Charles Bukowski

“60 yard pass” by Charles Bukowski

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Seaside Sojourns

Fleeing the heat of the French capital

Get Hurt—or Go Back to Work

Sunset over Gettysburg battlefield

Rising Again

A writer finds much that hasn’t changed in the former Confederacy

Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide by Tony Horwitz

Ojo

“An Essay on Man: Epistle 1” by Alexander Pope

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Swan Song

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto

Black and white photo of a Greek statue

The Paradox of Poetry

A podcast from a leading poetry magazine helps demystify contemporary poems

Winter Sun

“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

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