George Lazenby

Beethoven and James Bond

Recalling the past, surveying the future

Parking lot

Diorama

“Invictus” by William Ernest Henley

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tongass National Park

Preserving the Wild

What’s next for America’s largest national forest?

Piglets

The Piggies’ Tale

“The Listeners” by Walter de La Mare

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Streetcar

’Tis the Season

“Forgotten As If You Never Were” by Mahmoud Darwish

Poems read aloud, beautifully

books

Thirteen of the Best Books We Read in 2019

From fiction that will pull you in to eight ways the world could end

Christmas lights

A Christmas Carol

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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