January

“I wonder if I can get the sound of a vase shattering over the phone without actually shattering a vase.”

New Orleans: Vanishing Graves

Holt Cemetery has been filled to capacity many times over; each gravesite has been used for dozens of burials

Three Poems
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Julia Gutman

Shrouds of Memory

Experience Everything

How a letter from one great writer changed the life of another

Winter 2021

I Will Not Make Any More Boring Podcasts

What John Baldessari’s conceptual art can teach us about life during the pandemic

Long-Distance Punishment

Could a landmark work of conceptual art be an emblem for the Covid era?

What Flavor?

“Wait” by Galway Kinnell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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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