Jason Middlebrook

Tree rings in time

Others

Too many people in the world isn’t the problem—people are the problem

The Sound of the Picturesque

Charles Ives and the Visual

Battle Hymns

Charles Ives and the Civil War

Cancer

“The Bird of Night” by Randall Jarrell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Celebrating an American Icon

Anchoring Shards of Memory

We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both
composers mined the past to root themselves in an unstable present

The Power of the Common Soul

Ives, music-making, and hope

Autumn 2024

Kinship and Contradictions

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity

Verde

Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew

Cats and Dogs

“Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Katie Heller Saltoun

Tenderness and grit

Magic Men

Aging Out

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Ageby James Chappel

Braña Curuchu

Under a Spell Everlasting

Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war

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