Tales of Mercy and Sacrifice

An Italian scholar’s exploration of the Hebrew Bible

The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso (translated from the Italian by Tim Parks)

Amy Brener

Totems to Knick-Knacks

Lessons From an Unwritten Autobiography

From doubt and despair to faith and love

The Long Room

“A Litany of Survival” by Audre Lorde

Poems read aloud, beautifully

On Hugging

What we lose when we can’t get close to the ones we love

A stylized pink-and-white cat toy waves hello

Aww, Phiwosophy!

When cute gets academic

A Matter of Emphasis

Not and its many permutations

What Do You Think

A Death in Karachi

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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