Writing Without Worry

Writing in Australian

Notes on some stunning Antipodean authors

Don’t Mock the Monocle (A Webcomic)

On our unspoken preferences for ordering adjectives

Hey Good Lookin’

Brain scans show that mathematicians register degrees of beauty when shown formulas

You’re in Denial

And so is everyone else

The Best of the Bard

Our favorite passages from Shakespeare’s works

Letter to Ira Glass

Shoshana

The estimable Cynthia Ozick

Wave Your Hands and Say It Right

On the surprising relationship between gestures and memory

I Feel Weak

And my perceived lack of social power affects assessment of my physical strength

“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

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

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