Florida Man
Making a home in the Sunshine State when you feel like a perpetual outsider
By Thomas Swick Thursday, December 28, 2023
“Envoy” by Robert Louis Stevenson
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Give Us Something to Look At
Why ornament matters in architecture
By Witold Rybczynski Thursday, December 21, 2023
“The Mist on the Mountain” by Loren Eiseley
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Heavy Mettle
A story of oppression and resilience
By Teri Ellen Cross Davis Monday, December 18, 2023
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
By Robert Zaretsky Friday, December 15, 2023
The Writer in the Family
The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero
By Jonathan Liebson Wednesday, January 8, 2025
The Weight of a Stone
Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology
By Megan Craig Thursday, January 2, 2025
“The Horses” by Edwin Muir
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 31, 2024
The Snow Maiden
Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice