Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

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

“My Grandmother’s Love Letters” by Hart Crane

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Deleting Delusions

Why I finally quit social media

From Mandate to Nation State

How a failed Arab rebellion ensured Israel’s survival

Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by Oren Kessler

Chaucer’s Leading Lady

Marion Turner on our enduring fascination with the Wife of Bath

The Key

“The Hospital” by Patrick Kavanagh

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Carolyn Misterek

Domestic Bliss

The Comic Queen of Metafiction

Gunnhild Øyehaug talks about her twisted new collection of short stories

Brilliant Carnage

Sam Peckinpah’s slow-motion bullet ballet

Boy in a Bed

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