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Writing English as a Second Language

Offbeat at the Apollo

Elvis Costello’s cable TV show, Spectacle, ranges across musical genres and centuries

Karl Kirchwey's Forge of Love

Four Poems

The Study

The Blue Birds Come Today

Burritoville

My Brain on My Mind

The ABCs of the thrumming, plastic mystery that allows us to think, feel, and remember

The Stolen Election

An expatriate Iranian writer travels her troubled homeland in the weeks after a disputed presidential vote

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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