Bard Justice

Shakespeare and the law

A Thousand Times More Fair What Shakespeare’s Plays Teach Us About Justice By Kenji Yoshino

The View from 90

Even when those in my generation have reached a state of serenity, wisdom, and relative comfort, what we face can hardly be called the golden years

Homage to a Bad Boy: John Ashbery

Baseball’s Loss of Innocence

When the 1919 Black Sox scandal shattered Ring Lardner’s reverence for the game, the great sportswriter took a permanent walk

The True Church

Seeing Red

Can we understand Rothko’s work without decoding his favorite color?

Math & Magic

The roots of Western science

The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society & the Birth of the Modern World By Edward Dolnick

The Games Room

Looking Forward, Looking Back

The Right to Write

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

New Year, Old Year

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

Ho Ho Horror

Why not make this Christmas a little darker?

A Story for Christmas

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