Brand-New Cities

Frank Gehry’s Bilbao Effect looks a lot like 1960s-style urban renewal

Lenny’s Little Chats

Envy the children who learned music from the maestro, Leonard Bernstein

The One Who Went Before

Remembering the playwright August Wilson, 1945-2005

Seven Poems

Boy Shooting at a Statue

Replacements

Mountains

Honestly, Abe

Findings: Honestly, Abe!

Tea and Fantasy

Fact, fiction, and revolution in an American town

Verde

Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew

Cats and Dogs

“Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Katie Heller Saltoun

Tenderness and grit

Magic Men

Braña Curuchu

Under a Spell Everlasting

Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war

In the Endless Arctic Light
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A journey to the far north of Norway means confronting our changing climate

The Wonder of It All
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In search of awe

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