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 Promised Land of the Pampas

Javier Sinay on the forgotten history of the first Jewish immigrants in Argentina

Don’t Tell the Tourists

Hollywood’s surprising links to the antebellum South

“Recuerdo” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poems read aloud, beautifully

In the Frame of the Father

The lyrical, spiritual work of Darrel Ellis began with a precious inheritance

Medieval Madams

Eleanor Janega on the overlooked lives of ordinary women

Thirty Centimeters

“Postscript” by Seamus Heaney

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Claire Whitehurst

Reflections of Ourselves

The Sensual Sargent

Paul Fisher on the restless life of an American great

Taking Stock

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