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

“Defeat” by Kahlil Gibran

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Kat Wiese

Taking flight

Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming

Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things

The Patron Subjects

Who were the Wertheimers, the family that sat for a dozen of John Singer Sargent’s paintings?

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

The Weight of a Stone

Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology

New Year, Old Year

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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