Will the Real Vergil Please Stand Up?

Making sense of the life of a poet about whom we know so little

Wildlife

“The Silence” by C. K. Williams

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Danielle Nilsen

When art becomes playtime

Dancing With Deneuve

A young writer observed a failure in the making while watching François Truffaut in action

The Color of Dust

Sometimes even a team of radiation oncologists and neurosurgeons can be mystified by the strange workings of the human brain

Sunrise, Sunset

“The Great Lover” by Rupert Brooke

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Dancing the Imperial Twist

Julian Saporiti on mixing music with history as No-No Boy

The Lives of Bryan

My brother often eluded death, but the many trials that he endured could not prepare us for that awful moment when he finally left us

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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