“Unending Love” by Rabindranath Tagore

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Jackie Milad

Our Historied Selves

Know Your Earworm

Susan Rogers on figuring out why you love your favorite songs

Bad Jew

Reckoning with a heritage as painfully distant as it is impossible to lose

The Stalker

Averted Vision

Seeing the world anew in the aftermath of family tragedy, through the lenses of physics and theology

“Give Me Back My Rags” by Vasko Popa

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Freedom Tales

Long before the contentious school board fights of today, Lydia Maria Child tried to help America’s children understand their country’s racial transgressions

The Changing of the Guard

This year’s US Open showed the world that tennis’s next generation is here

Eyes Wide Open

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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