“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 Christophe by 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

The Snow Maiden

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

The Long Run

“Dungeon” by Rabindranath Tagore

Poems read aloud, beautifully

A Good Yarn

Once upon a time, a woman adopted a 676-pound bale of wool and got an inside look at a disappearing industry

Cross

Too Long Ignored

An engaging look at the forces that shaped history south of the border

Silver, Sword & Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Storyby Marie Arana

Marcus Cain

Optical Immersions

“November Rain” by Jaroslav Seifert

For All Saints’ Day

A Composer in an Antique Land

The legacy of Arthur Farwell

Computer

The Future of Silicon Valley

An excerpt from Beyond the Valley

Beyond the Valleyby Ramesh Srinivasan

El Hambre y las Ganas de Comer

A Rather Haunted Episode

For Halloween, a special guest interview with Ruth Franklin

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