“Advice to a Girl” by Sara Teasdale

Poems read aloud, beautifully

A Million Kindnesses

Honoring Jim Lehrer, beloved newsman and friend

The Composer as Dissident

Karl Amadeus Hartmann and the act of bearing witness

“miss rosie” by Lucille Clifton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Molly Springfield

A Trick of the Eye

Lenin

Revolutionary Chaos

The first-ever English translation of a 20th-century Russian masterpiece

dog

The Writing on the Wall

“I Knew a Woman” by Theodore Roethke

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Book

Why Book Reviewing Isn’t Going Anywhere

A researcher explores the future of a changing practice

Cape Reinga

The View From the End of the World

Wildfires, volcanoes, and the story of a mythical tree

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

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

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