Crossing Over

The art of Nikolai Kapustin

Last Words

One of the final poems that J. D. McClatchy (1945-2018) wrote

Service With a Scowl

In France, the customer isn’t always right

Neither Fugues nor Feathers

Remembering Sutherland Springs

A chronicle of a mass shooting and its aftermath

The Beautiful Race

An excerpt from Colin O’Brien’s exploration of Italy’s greatest cycling event

Go Fish

The story of a Senegalese fishing community on the brink

Lost and Found

Igor Stravinsky’s Chant funèbre

Just for Kicks

The peculiar French aversion to shoeshines

Pictures

Reflecting on gun violence from the Happiest Place on Earth

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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