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

Ho Ho Horror

Why not make this Christmas a little darker?

A Story for Christmas

“Snow” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Diagnostician of Despair

Why Rousseau believed that Enlightenment values would lead us to ruin

Nights at the Opera

Long before he wrote his masterly novels, Stendhal was transformed by the power of music

The Challenge

“The Cucumber” by Nâzim Hikmet

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Going for Gold

Joshua Prager on a forgotten Olympic gymnast whose 1904 record still hasn’t been beaten

Bards Behind Bars

Reading Sartre aloud inside a maximum-security prison

Un Tinto

“Stick the Landing” by David Gewanter

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Marlana Stoddard Hayes

Hope blooms

Rage, Muse

The novels that revisit Greek myths, giving voice to the women who were scorned, wronged, or forgotten

Drops in a Bucket

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