Plastic Pollution

… and another hidden hit on the environment

Evil, Evil Everywhere

And how it might be affecting our culture

Taking the Plunge

Dog Stories

Bark if you’ve heard this one before

How the Seashell Got Its Stripes

Deluge Trilogy

Digging Into Dickens

What Does the Owlet Say?

On the competitive squabbles of barn owl siblings

Squidgy the Robot

Tiny theoretical device portends medical marvels

The Rich Are Not Different

Even if they think they are

“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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