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

“Not Only the Eskimos” by Lisel Mueller

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Friend Zone

Mary Wollstonecraft’s ideas on what makes a marriage tick were downright radical for their time

Justice, Arrested

Joanna Schwartz on the difficulty of holding the police accountable

The Naming of Cats

“The Dacca Gauzes” by Agha Shahid Ali

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Not Your Parents’ New York Phil

Opening night at David Geffen Hall was an attempt to reconcile with an institution’s past and map out a way for the future

Past is Present

Marie Arana on how violence, exploitation, and religion have ruled Latin America’s history—and might portend its future

Housewarming

“He averted his eyes and remembered something a yoga teacher had often told him, that when you thought people were laughing at you, they were only laughing near you.”

Burning Money

“The Hollow Men” by T. S. Eliot

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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