“What’s My Name?”

Ken Burns’s new documentary examines the enduring power of Muhammad Ali

Colors

“The child (who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga)” by Ingrid Jonker

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Ancestral Present

The fruits of a decades-long inquiry into contemporary Indian culture

<em>Deep Hanging Out: Wanderings and Wonderment in Native California </em> by Malcolm Margolin

A Desperate Escape

The events in Kabul recall terrible scenes in The Aeneid

Nature on Trial

What happens when creatures break human rules?

At the Corner of Byron and Shelley

Poetry and philhellenism at the Greek bicentennial

Floozies and Hootchies

Writing in the Wings

An excerpt from A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas by Dan O’Brien

A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas Dan O’Brien

“My Philosophy of Life” by John Ashbery

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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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