La Guerra

“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” by E. E. Cummings

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Birth of Black Power

Stokely Carmichael and the speech that changed the course of the civil rights movement

Zoom Rooms

The Lingo of LOLcats

How language is humanity’s most spectacular open-source project

Caught Between Worlds

Minari, Nomadland, and reflections on Asian-American identity

Gente para Todo

“Song of the Rain” by Kahlil Gibran

Poems read aloud, beautifully

When Ideas Mattered

How “freedom from” became “freedom to”

THE FREE WORLD: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand

Jenny Freestone

Transforming the material and the natural

Cudillero

“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

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