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

Bird of America

Jack E. Davis on how we revere and revile the bald eagle

The Dinner Party

Certain things shouldn’t be brought up at the dinner table, but in our fraught time, that’s nearly impossible

Loyalty

“Adlestrop” by Edward Thomas

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Illustration of a vintage blue car against a yellow background

Life Is a Highway

Dan Albert on how car culture swallowed America

Wicked Brew

The King and I

“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Samantha Bittman

Flipping the Script (or Loom)

The Last Cigarette

Cinema’s most seductive prop

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