Bookshelves

A Holiday Reading Roundup

Seven books published by the Scholar’s contributors in 2019

Holly Osborne

Blades of Grass

The Global Garage Sale

What happens to all the stuff we downsize, declutter, and discard?

Monkey Business

An Excerpt from Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Snowy branches

Let It Snow

An excerpt from Snow: A Scientific and Cultural Exploration

House of Mirrors

Carmen Maria Machado on her meta-memoir of a harrowing relationship

Still Smiling

Still from Cape Fear

The Shadow of Evil

Chilean flag

Soundtrack of a Revolution

Seeing and hearing a protest explode on the streets of Santiago

Cudillero

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

New Year, Old Year

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