Jean Alexander Frater

Supporting the Substrate

Dark White

The caste status of Arabs in the United States and Germany

“The Quarrel” by Katherine Mansfield

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Remaking a Killing

How a brutal double homicide in 19th-century France enflamed the imagination of a great Russian novelist

<em>The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece</em> by Kevin Birmingham

Why We Need the Humanities

The word itself contains the answer

The Sorceresses’ Amanuensis

Alice Hoffman on the conclusion of the Practical Magic series

It’s Come to This

St. Paul: 2020

Overheating

“There’s a Moon Inside My Body” by Kabir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Creative Destruction

The spiritual quest of the alchemist

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

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

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