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Shostakovich in South Dakota

A manifesto for the future of American classical music

The Archives

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

The Root Cause

Padraic X. Scanlan tells the real history of the Irish Potato Famine

In the Mushroom

True foraging isn’t the domain of the weekend warrior; it’s serious, serious business

Consolidated Ruin

“After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes” by Emily Dickinson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño

Ancestral healing

Asteroid Hunters

The scientists and engineers who defend our planet day and night from potentially hazardous space rocks

Who Would I Be Off My Meds

Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistanceby Laura Delano

Brown Wasps

“Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

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