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

Kyung Kim

Far over the misty mountains

The Fair Fields

Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil

Just Yesterday

Winter 2025

Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo/Alamy

Remembering Anton Bruckner

Tastes Like … You Know

Overconsumed

Adam Minter on what happens to all the stuff we downsize, declutter, and discard

Ups and Downs

“how i got ovah” by Carolyn Rodgers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

On Book

August Wilson’s play just hit the big screen, but even greater rewards await on the page

“I Have Had My Vision”

Three prompts

The Baritone as Democrat

How Lawrence Tibbett prophesied the Metropolitan Opera crisis of today

Échame la Culpa

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