October 6

“The King’s Breakfast” by A. A. Milne

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Setting Out

The occasional diary of an American graduate student in England

Cataratas

Art for All

Lance Esplund

Air From the East

From Rousseau to Weber to Hindemith

An Office of One’s Own

The unlikely liberation of commuting to a desk

The Seven Best Books We’ve Ever Received

‘Tis the season

An Ample Meal

Burned

“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend

How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine

Cudillero

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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

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