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

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

My Cousin Manya

One survivor’s story

Poco a Poco

“To David, About His Education” by Howard Nemerov

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Dottie Lo Bue

House and home

American Horror Story

Jeremy Dauber on our obsession with fear

Part of the Parade

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