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Sometimes being articulate isn’t enough

The Best Advice for Biographers

The Babe

What if sporting encounters really were life and death?

On Expecting Things to Fall Apart

We understand entropy surprisingly early in life

Ode to Jerome Singer

A new paper extols his daydreaming studies

Bring on the Masseuse!

The aches and pains of our Internet age

Don’t Talk a Book Away; Just Write

The Box Scores

Affectionate arithmetic

Limericks That Leave You Hanging

When we expect to hear a rhyme and don’t

Small Scientists

Five traits come naturally to little ones

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

Birthday Boy

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