Christina Watka

Fragments of light

The Rollout We Deserve

Our tolerance for piecemeal health care has led to the Covid-19 vaccination mess

Red Star Avant Garde

How contemporary artists made China modern

“A Refreshing Change Is in Your Future”

Making art out of fortune-cookie wisdom

North to Alaska

“Funeral Blues” by W.H. Auden

Order Amid Chaos

A poet-scientist considers the imponderables of existence

Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings by Alan Lightman

What’s Happening in Myanmar

Understanding the military coup in Myanmar

Skinning a Cat

“Love at First Sight” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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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