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

Katharine Dufault

Imagined Forests

Call of the Wild

How a radical conservation effort has transformed a former farm

You Were on My Mind

Centennials, Part Two

The art of Henryk Szeryng

Too Much Information

When flawed algorithms meet naïve expectations

The Efficiency Paradoxby Edward Tenner

Versed in Outrage

A poet’s capitulation highlights the challenges facing artists and intellectuals

How to Cheat

Making the Most of #MeToo

A second-wave feminist on 21st-century feminism

Riada

The Virtuoso as Artist

Remembering Ruggiero Ricci on the centenary of his birth

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