From Côte d’Ivoire to the California Coast

Plus: Phillip Lopate tells us a secret

On Being Popular and Well-Liked

The subject that makes me most nervous as a writer

In Praise of Vinyl

Returning to a more tactile, immersive experience

All Trump, All the Time

Painterly Poems

Kara Schlabaugh

Memories of Iowa

By the Content of Its Characters

On rereading “War and Peace” in the age of radical sensitivity

Memories of Jazz Nights

You needed stamina, but the payoff was great

Remembering Rostropovich

A defender of the arts during authoritarian rule

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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