Dumped in Space

A simple new way to track Earth-orbiting trash

Brilliant

Could we please just tone it down?

Start Off Dead

Headlights

The changing shape of comics

Man of Faith—and Doubt

Hugh Nissenson should have been better known for his spare historical novels

Spanish in the City

What’s behind an ongoing change to the Spanish spoken by New Yorkers?

The Princess Paradox

Toymaker’s video brings up concerns about sex stereotypes

Painful Separation

When students outgrow their mentors

The Family Trade

This Is the Best World Ever!

The elevating focus of prayer

“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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