Taking Down Teddy

In our rush to condemn the heroes of the past, we must be sure not to abandon empathy

Forgotten Transcendentalists

Candás and Luarca

Let America Be America Again

“The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car” by Dorothea Grossman

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Chao Wang

The Science of Dreams

How Architecture Shapes Our Emotions

Why we shouldn’t give up on how cities make us feel

The Rock

The Gravity of the Situation

Popular physics books make science cheap, easy, and entertaining. The problem is, they often mislead.

The Joke

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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

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