Sing, Muse

Exploding the Canon, Episode 1

My Name Is Emily

What we call ourselves—and what
others call us—can be both a burden and a gift

See It, Say It

“Said Hanrahan” by John O’Brien

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Hope Gangloff

Branching out

Lunching With Rabi

An afternoon spent in the company of an illustrious physicist

Invisible Ink

Giving center page to an era’s forgotten writers

Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff

My Peony

“My Possessions” by Charles Simic

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Strength and Conditioning

Whether teaching history in the segregated South or winning Super Bowls as an NFL coach, Johnny Parker has encouraged his charges to strive for a certain kind of greatness

“What a Strange Path”

Three new prompts

Kinship and Contradictions

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity

Verde

Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew

Cats and Dogs

“Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Katie Heller Saltoun

Tenderness and grit

Magic Men

Aging Out

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Ageby James Chappel

Braña Curuchu

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