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

Annus Horribilis

“To a Milkmaid” by Carolyn Wells

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tunneling for Daylight

All hail the miraculous, tenacious carpenter bee

“The Hill-Shade” by William Barnes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Julia Powell

Dreamscapes

Black Cleopatra

How a recent Netflix series infuriated Egypt—and raised questions about color stratification and the social construct of race

The Wind

“The Earth is Closing on Us” by Mahmoud Darwish

Poems read aloud, beautifully

How Well Do You Know Your Hitchcock?

A multiple-choice test for the maestro’s fans

Hey Siri, Call Webster

When it comes to learning new words, it’s not where you look them up that’s important

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