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 Cat’s Meow

“Upon Julia’s Clothes” by Robert Herrick

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Janet Loren Hill

Decontextualized viewpoints

Dying for Fashion

Dana Thomas on how our hunger for new clothes damages the environment and exploits workers

Epithalamium

“I got a collar for the boy, a nice leather number with steel studs that made him look a touch mean and inspired me to get myself a steel-studded camera harness, and off we’d walk, miles a day between jobs.”

Every Stone

“I Am Learning to Abandon the World” by Linda Pastan

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Alcaraz’s World

The future of men’s tennis is now

On the Line

Karen Pinchin on what tuna reveal about the fate of our oceans

“Better Asians than Blacks”

What we’re missing about the SCOTUS decision on race-conscious admissions

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