Footnotes to Jefferson’s Idea of Happiness

We are free to pursue it, but what does it mean?

The Promised Land of the Pampas

Javier Sinay on the forgotten history of the first Jewish immigrants in Argentina

The Coolest Car

“Kisses” by Gabriela Mistral

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Hoesy Corona

Vestiges of Climate Migration

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times

The people of Poland step up

Sakura Fever

How an English eccentric saved Japan’s beloved cherry trees—and spread them around the world

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES

Footage from a war and the effects on your brain

A Godchild

“Nothing Twice” 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

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

New Year, Old Year

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

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