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

Of Poets and a President

Was Walt Whitman right when he said that America’s “common referee” is not its presidents but its poets?

Beneath a Blood Wolf Moon

Unimposing Little Gems

Russell Baker was a columnist’s columnist

Susan E. Crowell

Sculpting Pollen

“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Take Me Back

Requiem for Fanny

Mendelssohn’s final expression of grief

The Art of Finding Time

(And finding time for art)

The Expanse of Spirit

Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann

Immersion, Organically

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