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

“The Answering Machine” by Linda Pastan

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Just When You Thought It Wasn’t Safe …

How Wilbert Longfellow turned America into a nation of swimmers

Imperfecta

Her brother’s disease leads a writer to challenge how we conceive of human abnormality in the emerging era of gene editing

Mystery Solved!

“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Chris Combs

Surveillance state

Consummated in Exile

A new recording of Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances conveys the breadth of the 20th-century composer’s life’s journey

Agent 37

“He Asked About the Quality” by C. P. Cavafy

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tunneling to Freedom

In The Great Escape (1963), the true story of a harrowing breakout from a German POW camp

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