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The Great Reformatting

As performances go digital, artists must reconsider their relationship to audiences

Paige Twyman

Postindustrial imagination

Read Me A Poem, Won’t You?

Behind the scenes of our sister podcast

Crossing a Bridge

A drone-operating course helps students reimagine infrastructure

On the Wire

“Halfway Down” by A. A. Milne

Cooking During Quarantine

The daily rituals that are both indulgent and necessary

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

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“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

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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

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