A Shattered Sisterhood

“The Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Visible Man

A writer whose early speculative fiction made him famous

The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin

Alphabet of Joy

People of the Parchment

The ordinary lives hidden in medieval manuscripts

Her Pages Caught Fire

A new biography of a ferociously talented and determined writer

A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick by Cathy Curtis

The Reading Hordes

An excerpt from The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen

<em>The Library: A Fragile History</em> Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen

“Salutation to the Dawn” by Kalidasa

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Lost in the Garden

One essayist’s thorny tribute to another

Jean Alexander Frater

Supporting the Substrate

Something New in the West

Kurt Beals on translating All Quiet on the Western Front

The Resistance Fighter as Philosopher

Remembering Vladimir Jankélévitch

Winter Sun

“The Vow” by Yuliya Musakovska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Lindsey Weber

Relationships that define us

“Muse Circe Reclaims Her Lucre”

Five new prompts

In the Endless Arctic Light

A journey to the far north of Norway means confronting our changing climate

The Bears

“Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Family/History

David Levering Lewis digs into his own origin story

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