Made for You and Me

This land has contained our best and worst impulses

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“Museum of Fine Arts” and “Hatbox”

“The Pool” by H. D.

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Opera 101

A crash course in how to love one of the most elusive art forms

Following the Current

The Maestro as Engineer

Ernest Ansermet and Arthur Honegger’s speeding train

Protected by Privilege?

An exercise in illogic

Incarcerating the Innocent

An excerpt from Lara Bazelon’s examination of wrongful imprisonment

Lara Bazelon

Time to Tee Up

Podcasts To Get You Thinking

Our new Daily Scholar columnist reviews the best educational offerings

Something New in the West

Kurt Beals on translating All Quiet on the Western Front

The Resistance Fighter as Philosopher

Remembering Vladimir Jankélévitch

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

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