The Only Shop in Town

“Stages” by Hermann Hesse

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Florida Man

Making a home in the Sunshine State when you feel like a perpetual outsider

Los Inocentes

“Envoy” by Robert Louis Stevenson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Give Us Something to Look At

Why ornament matters in architecture

Christmas Format

“The Mist on the Mountain” by Loren Eiseley

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Heavy Mettle

A story of oppression and resilience

To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul by Tracy K. Smith

A State of Perpetual Unease

Sartre’s essay on French anti-Semitism cast the problem in existential terms

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

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

A Story for Christmas

“Snow” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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