Winter Sun

“The Vow” by Yuliya Musakovska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Lindsey Weber

Relationships that define us

In the Endless Arctic Light

A journey to the far north of Norway means confronting our changing climate

The Bears

“Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Family/History

David Levering Lewis digs into his own origin story

In the Lions’ Studio

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation by Kenneth Turan

Such People

“My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer” by Mark Strand

Poems read aloud, beautifully

“Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Our Pragmatic Present

There is no prescribed meaning or purpose to our lives—and that’s okay

Mind in Nature: John Dewey, Cognitive Science, and a Naturalistic Philosophy for Livingby Mark Johnson and Jay Schulkin

Cherry Blossom Bonanza

Naoko Abe on how an English eccentric saved Japan’s beloved cherry trees—and spread them around the world

On the Record, At Last

My father never got to tell his story at the war crimes trials at Nuremberg—it’s taken decades for the truth to come out

River’s Edge

“Three O’Clock 1942” by Grace Cavalieri

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Purchased Bride

Filling in the Fragments

Diane Rayor on translating the poetry of Sappho

Phantoms

What it’s like to navigate the world when your senses conjure up phenomena that others can’t perceive

The First Month

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