The Edgy Optimist

At 76, saxist Sonny Rollins is still on top of his game

When Maestros Were Maestros

Innovator, mentor, tyrant, Leopold Stokowski brought real joy to music making

Conflict and Culture

Water Lilies

Claude Monet, 1917

Nine Times Nine, on Awe

Netsuke

Forgetting

A Walk Around the Block

Istanbul: The Group

Celebrations

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

Revenants

Between Memory and Hope

The love poetry of Anthony Walton

Spring 2025

A Lament for the Ages

Something New in the West

Kurt Beals on translating All Quiet on the Western Front

The Resistance Fighter as Philosopher

Remembering Vladimir Jankélévitch

Winter Sun

“The Vow” by Yuliya Musakovska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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