Evil, Evil Everywhere

And how it might be affecting our culture

Taking the Plunge

Dog Stories

Bark if you’ve heard this one before

How the Seashell Got Its Stripes

Digging Into Dickens

Lost in Translation

Five Poems

What Does the Owlet Say?

On the competitive squabbles of barn owl siblings

Squidgy the Robot

Tiny theoretical device portends medical marvels

The Rich Are Not Different

Even if they think they are

The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday

Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history

Burned

“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

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

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