“The Overture”

In the Matter of the Commas

For the true literary stylist, this seemingly humble punctuation mark is a matter of precision, logic, individuality, and music

Savory or Apples?

“Wild Peaches” by Elinor Wylie

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Muscle Memory

Michael Joseph Gross on the importance of strength, past and present

Doing Nothing Is Everything

An areligious writer finds peace in a Benedictine monastery

Aflame: Learning from Silence by Pico Iyer

Facts of the Case

“Campo dei Fiori” by Czesław Miłosz

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Helina Metaferia

An army of activists

Lessons From Harlem

A white blues player’s streetside education

Get Rich or Die Trying

In the shadow of the Silicon Valley of death

Un Beso y una Flor

An American in Berlin

Aaron Copland’s 1970 visit to Germany

Time Well Spent

The life-affirming pleasure of childcare

Imaginary Trips to Real Places

Snails

Watching for signs of wildlife

The Year That Spring Did Not Come

Looking back on the turmoil of 1968

Literary Life on the Rocks

A writer’s own ordeal highlights the banal sameness of addiction

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermathby Leslie Jamison

Galleries of the World

An interview with the Met’s Daniel H. Weiss

What Is a Dog?

Friendship, faith, and love, for starters—yet our relationships with our canine companions contain many more unfathomable mysteries

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