On Keeping a Blog

A Farewell

Brazil by Way of Bach

The music of Heitor Villa-Lobos

The Price of Assimilation

Reverence vs. resemblance

Andrew Yamauchi

Visions of Paradise

A Visit to Harvard

And a surprise encounter with Dr. Johnson

The Canyons, the Stars, and the Realm Beyond

Olivier Messiaen’s tribute to America

Twin Peaks

Reporting from the world’s highlines and highlands

The Pill

Clara Nulty

Eliminating the Human Element

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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