Target Practice

From our continuing Afghanistan series, “Snapshots of a Fading War”

The Remains of the Day

What the Martin Luther King holiday should really be about

Book Projects

The Art of Keeping Busy

Demons Where Once There Were None

Exploring the darker powers of suggestion

Toilet Talk, Part 2

New technology can save water and combat killer diseases

Vocational Crisis

Slow down and take time to discover your life’s work

A Moment Alone

From our continuing Afghanistan series, “Snapshots of a Fading War”

Bubbles

What’s wrong with Bill Maher—and the rest of us

Money

… And its role in a just society

Cotton

All he wanted was to work his land in peace, never knowing that what mattered most to him was about to be taken away

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

The Weight of a Stone

Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology

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