“A Litany of Survival” by Audre Lorde

Poems read aloud, beautifully

New York Was Very Heaven

The midcentury newcomers who reshaped the art world

The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942–2011 by Edith Schloss

On Hugging

What we lose when we can’t get close to the ones we love

A stylized pink-and-white cat toy waves hello

Aww, Phiwosophy!

When cute gets academic

A Matter of Emphasis

Not and its many permutations

What Do You Think

A Death in Karachi

“Winter Scene” by A. R. Ammons

Poems read aloud, beautifully

If You Build It, Will They Still Come?

Scaling the border wall

The Pandemic Mood

Who created it and how it is maintained

“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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