Henry and Louis

An unlikely literary friendship

Good Enough

“The Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Visible Man

A writer whose early speculative fiction made him famous

The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin

People of the Parchment

The ordinary lives hidden in medieval manuscripts

Her Pages Caught Fire

A new biography of a ferociously talented and determined writer

A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick by Cathy Curtis

A Buen Hambre

“Salutation to the Dawn” by Kalidasa

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Lost in the Garden

One essayist’s thorny tribute to another

Jean Alexander Frater

Supporting the Substrate

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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