Queen of the Castle

Looking for Mama Lou, the legendary singer whose work helped inspire American ragtime

The Grinberg Affair

One of Mexico’s most curious missing-persons cases involves a scientist who dabbled in the mystical arts

Reflexive Glory

“A Poem for the Two of Us” by Mika Antic

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Myth, Mystery, and Contradiction

A journey through a region in search of itself

Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski

The Humanist in the Laboratory

A personal encounter with J. Robert Oppenheimer

The Decreationist

Simone Weil’s thoughts on the unmaking of the self

El Carmín

“Waiting for Icarus” by Muriel Rukeyser

Poems read aloud, beautifully

A Room for the Ages

Oglethorpe University’s time capsule was meant to last thousands of years, but will it?

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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