A Whim of Irony

E Pluribus Unum

A conversation about words

More Sober To Say

The Heft of the Horse

A not so tall tale

Wounded By Books

Brits of an earlier age read at their own risk

Leap

The Care and Feeding of Prince George

Newly discovered benefits found in breast milk

Letter From Mumbai: Intolerance

An open letter to India’s Prime Minister from a persecuted writer

Old Acrostic, New Acrostic

Four Poems

Adventures of the Double-Headed Girl, The Girl with Antlers, Thou Shalt Not, Monogamy

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

The Writer in the Family

The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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