Ann Provan

Where the Staircase Ends

Ku Klux Khaki

The far right’s signature style is less about dad pants and more about fatherhood

New Name for an Old Ceremony

Gregory Smithers on two-spirits in Indigenous American history

The Scar on the Hand

Writers and the early loss of parents

South, North, and Underfoot

“Nevertheless” by Marianne Moore

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Indiana Absurd

Tiffany Tsao on translating a beguiling Indonesian short-story collection

The Last Naturalist

A zoologist happiest in the fields and streams of Ohio wrote major works about the state’s birds and fishes

Thursday in Madrid

“The Color Blue” by Boris Pasternak

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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