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

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

Ho Ho Horror

Why not make this Christmas a little darker?

A Story for Christmas

Camouflage

“Death Fugue” by Paul Celan

Poems read aloud, beautifully

A Forgotten Turner Classic

Who was George Eyser, the one-legged German-American gymnast who astounded at the Olympic Games?

Catalina Schliebener Muñoz

Playing with dolls

Downstream of Fukushima

The Japanese seafood industry has rebounded, but is anyone worried about irradiated water?

Set in Seclusion

“One Letter” by Liu Xiaobo

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Acting Out

One tortuous journey from stage to screen

Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?by Philip Gefter

Bubble Girl

The kidnapping that once riveted the nation

Lift Off

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