Opera 101

A crash course in how to love one of the most elusive art forms

Following the Current

The Maestro as Engineer

Ernest Ansermet and Arthur Honegger’s speeding train

Protected by Privilege?

An exercise in illogic

Incarcerating the Innocent

An excerpt from Lara Bazelon’s examination of wrongful imprisonment

Lara Bazelon

Time to Tee Up

Podcasts To Get You Thinking

Our new Daily Scholar columnist reviews the best educational offerings

Flying Free

On St. Cecilia’s Day

Handel’s ode for November 22

Bill of Health

The shock of entering the American health-care system

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

Revenants

Between Memory and Hope

The love poetry of Anthony Walton

The Heart Yearns Without Tears
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After the Fallout
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On jellyfish babies, my father’s pain, and the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific

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