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

Mozart in Sun and Shadow

A novella imagines a day with the great composer

#SelfExile

On waiting for the political tide to change

Suchitra Mattai

Portraits of Colonialism

Strange Fruit and Stolen Lives

The ugly story of the whitest county in America

Cien Vueltas

Bernstein on Bach

Learning about counterpoint on network TV

Carpe Diem

In regret of lost time

Dog Days and Dog-Eared Pages

A summer reading list, Scholar-style

Checkmate in 10 Moves

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