“Tarantella” by Hilaire Belloc

Poems read aloud, beautifully

At a Snail’s Pace

France has handled Covid-19 in a very French way

The Baddest Man in Town

On the trail of a historical figure immortalized in African-American folklore

Women at War

The fight for a spot on the frontlines (and in the history books)

Words in Confinement

Lessons on literature and life from inside a notorious Mississippi prison

Herd Mentality

Favorite Things

“Palindrome” by Lisel Mueller

Amelia Midori Miller

Hands: Other windows to the soul

How to Be a Grown-Up

Redefining the traditional markers of adulthood

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

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

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