Accumulation of Events

“To the Insects” by W. S. Merwin

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Bach’s Birthday Returns

The young Bruno Maderna sought inspiration in the past

Going With the Flow

An excerpt from Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives by Mark Miodownik

Mark Miodownik

Taking the Blame

Should all white Australians be implicated in the actions of one?

Red Eyes and Blue Moons

Five Great Irish Films

A list of classic Irish movies not made by John Ford

Laleh Mehran

Inside the Glimmering Lights

Acogedor

A Woman’s Place

White female slave owners in the South were just as deeply invested in the institution as their male counterparts

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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