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Three Poems

Riding With Mr. Washington

How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction

We Are the Borg

Is the convergence of human and machine really upon us?

The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

Bards Behind Bars

Reading Sartre aloud inside a maximum-security prison

Rage, Muse

The novels that revisit Greek myths, giving voice to the women who were scorned, wronged, or forgotten

Femmes Fantastiques

Mickalene Thomas and the art of remixing

Martha Foley’s Granddaughters

What the esteemed literary editor never knew about the life of her troubled son, David Burnett

To Catch a Sunset

Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love

Rhyme, Not Repetition

All that’s past isn’t necessarily present

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

Born to Be Wild

One founding family’s centuries-long journey

American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nationby John Kaag

Florida Baroque

The tropical verse of Ange Mlinko

For Whom Do We Create?

The conundrum facing so many American artists today

Summer 2024

Remembering Gabriel Fauré

Uncontacted

Indigenous civilizations thrived long before Europeans showed up

Native Nations: A Millennium in North Americaby Kathleen DuVal

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