“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 14, 2025
“The Horses” by Edwin Muir
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 31, 2024
The Snow Maiden
Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice
By Stephanie Bastek Monday, December 30, 2024
Ho Ho Horror
Why not make this Christmas a little darker?
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, December 27, 2024
Mad Dogs and Transcendentalists
How the individualism of Emerson and Thoreau differs from today’s libertarianism
By Robert A. Gross Saturday, November 20, 2021
Nature’s Pharmacy
How ethnobotany blends past and future medicine
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, November 19, 2021
“The Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, November 16, 2021
People of the Parchment
The ordinary lives hidden in medieval manuscripts
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, November 12, 2021
The Reading Hordes
An excerpt from The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen
By Charlie Lee Tuesday, November 9, 2021
<em>The Library: A Fragile History</em>Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen
“Salutation to the Dawn” by Kalidasa
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, November 9, 2021
