Verde

Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew

Cats and Dogs

“Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Katie Heller Saltoun

Tenderness and grit

Magic Men

Braña Curuchu

Under a Spell Everlasting

Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war

In the Endless Arctic Light
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A journey to the far north of Norway means confronting our changing climate

The Wonder of It All
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In search of awe

On Book

August Wilson’s play just hit the big screen, but even greater rewards await on the page

“I Have Had My Vision”

Three prompts

The Baritone as Democrat

How Lawrence Tibbett prophesied the Metropolitan Opera crisis of today

Échame la Culpa

“Defeat” by Kahlil Gibran

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Kat Wiese

Taking flight

Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming

Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things

The Patron Subjects

Who were the Wertheimers, the family that sat for a dozen of John Singer Sargent’s paintings?

All in Your Head

“A Prayer for My Daughter” by W. B. Yeats

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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