The Grape Escape

Oenophilic discoveries near the Sea of Galilee

I Live for the Night

How to lose your drums and get them back

My Family’s Siberian Exile

A writer pieces together the forgotten history of life in Stalin’s special settlements

Lives of the Artists

The vistas and losses of two great English painters

Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime by Stanley Plumly

Burma: The Lady and the Monk
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Her Too

A daughter calculates the cost of her mother’s electrical career

Autumn 2018

Four Poems
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“On Vacation,” “Stonehenge Sandwich,” “Creazzo Alto,” and “Orvieto Classico”

The End of Literature

Even if writing is reduced to tweeted epigrams to keep readers reading, won’t writers still tell stories?

Visual Music

Is it possible to “hear” a painting as if it were a fugue by Bach?

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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