The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday

Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history

Burned

“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

Cudillero

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” 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

Marcia Crumley

Escapism

Marrying a Widow

Or, my spectral predecessor

Music at 14 Below

Pauline Oliveros’s Deep Listening

Peak Democracy

The Inimitable

Roy Boswell

Machine dreams

Orator-in-Chief

President Obama’s public remarks revealed his unshakable faith in the unity of the American people

We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obamaedited by E.J. Dionne Jr. and Joy-Ann Reid

Baldwin the Prophet vs. Baldwin the Writer

Can a film really capture the essence of both?

Kinderszenen

A love of music should be nurtured from the start

Alien to Ourselves

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