“A Refreshing Change Is in Your Future”

Making art out of fortune-cookie wisdom

North to Alaska

“Funeral Blues” by W.H. Auden

What’s Happening in Myanmar

Understanding the military coup in Myanmar

The Word—and Weird—of God

An excerpt from A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible by Kristen Swenson

Jayne Ross

Skinning a Cat

“Love at First Sight” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Erin Lynn Welsh

In the flowers, in the flames

Home Alone, with 200,000 Friends

Coming to terms with the critters we live with

A Reluctant Spy’s Conversion

Revisiting George Seaton’s underrated 1962 film, The Counterfeit Traitor

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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