Take Two Shots and Call Me in the Morning

Camper English on when alcohol was the cure

“Harriet in the Promised Land” by Sam Cornish

Poems read aloud, beautifully

You, Me, and the Deep Blue Sea

Matthew Green explores Britain’s ghost towns and drowned settlements

Single Origin or Bust

The quest of the modern connoisseur

“An Introduction” by Kamala Das

Poems read aloud, beautifully

How the Black Creek Lost Their Citizenship

Caleb Gayle on a complicated tale of belonging

Our Remedy

Quack Covid cures and New Age elixirs are just a 21st-century spin on 19th-century patent medicines

A Father’s Story

Free, Legal, On Demand

Tamara Dean on abortion in the 19th century

What a Long, Strange Trip It Was

The explosive writer who created worlds alien and mundane

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour

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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