Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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?

Findings: Meditations on the Literature of Spying

From the Spring 1965 issue of The Scholar

Balancing Acts

The Cradle of Modernism

From the Autumn 1990 issue of The Scholar

Sign Language

At their best, pictograms tell us clearly where to go and what to do; at their worst, things can get interesting

To the Rescue of Romanticism

From the Spring 1940 issue of The Scholar

Good Thing Going

Stephen Sondheim only looks better with time

Wonder Bread

Come with us to a place called Brooklyn, where the stories are half-baked and their endings bland and soft

Unto Caesar

Religious groups that have allied themselves with politicians, and vice versa, have ignored at their peril the lessons of Roger Williams and U.S. history

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