Crowdsourced Clairvoyance

Sam Knight on the psychiatrist who tried to predict disaster

Voices of the Displaced

The plight of Ukraine’s refugees in Poland

The Runaway

“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Sydney: A City Beyond Savings

A letter from Sydney, Australia

The Birth of the Egghead Paperback

How one very young man changed the course of publishing and intellectual life in America

The Intelligence Gatherers

The secret history of how Imperial Russia kept an eye on its Chinese neighbor

Frightfully Askew

What asymmetry in art can tell us about the way we view sickness and health, life and death

Our Way

“In Country Sleep” by Dylan Thomas

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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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