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

“Not Only the Eskimos” by Lisel Mueller

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Justice, Arrested

Joanna Schwartz on the difficulty of holding the police accountable

The Naming of Cats

“The Dacca Gauzes” by Agha Shahid Ali

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Not Your Parents’ New York Phil

Opening night at David Geffen Hall was an attempt to reconcile with an institution’s past and map out a way for the future

Past is Present

Marie Arana on how violence, exploitation, and religion have ruled Latin America’s history—and might portend its future

Housewarming

“He averted his eyes and remembered something a yoga teacher had often told him, that when you thought people were laughing at you, they were only laughing near you.”

Burning Money

“The Hollow Men” by T. S. Eliot

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Michael McGregor

Colors, Colors Everywhere

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