“Vultures” by Chinua Achebe

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Old Churchyard

“The Darkling Thrush” by Thomas Hardy

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Master of the Esoteric

A new biography of one of the past century’s most eclectic writers

Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. Connell Steve Paul

Emma R. Schwartz

Southern Gothic

Christmas Movies Beyond the Expected

Six films to shake up your holiday viewing

Taming the Wild Web

Tasmanian Devil Makes a Comeback

Why So Many Kids Struggle to Learn

Teachers continue to be trained in ways that ignore the findings of cognitive science

“Walking Away” by Cecil Day Lewis

Poems read aloud, beautifully

“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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