A cruise ship at dock in a beautiful bay

Journey to Nowhere

A very short excerpt from a poem-in-progress

Looking Back

The End of Driving

Yes, autonomous autos will make roads safer and more efficient, but what wonders will be lost?

Myths of Memory

Our ability to recall is not an undiluted gift

A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past by Lewis Hyde

Four Poems
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Meat Made

How 19th-century beef created modern America

“My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Ourcar

Beach Music

A sonata beautiful and strong

Children on an amusement park swing

The Battle of All Against All

What would a truly equal society look like?

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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