Covid Fatigue on the Continent

In Europe, pandemic restrictions are returning after a summer of eating, drinking, and vacationing

Pasamontañas

“Neutral Tones” by Thomas Hardy

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Smoke Out

Lighting up as the world is burning down

Coronavirus and the Coming Election

No matter who wins, the pandemic isn’t going away anytime soon

Morbid and Misunderstood

The science and history of books bound in human skin

The Polar Bear

Consider the Zipper

One professor’s quest to uncover the 100 best ideas of all time

“Wind-Up Doll” by Forugh Farrokhzad

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Rose Jaffe

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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