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

The Annotated “Stacka Lee”

Comments on the famous murder ballad’s oldest known lyrics

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

Blonde Venus

The mystique of Marlene Dietrich

The Root Cause

Padraic X. Scanlan tells the real history of the Irish Potato Famine

Consolidated Ruin

“After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes” by Emily Dickinson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño

Ancestral healing

Brown Wasps

“Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

A Midsummer Night’s Stream
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A Midsummer Night’s Stream

Learning to Be Social
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What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?

The Murderer as Everyman
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Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall

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