“Everyone Sang” by Siegfried Sassoon

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Swimming the River of Song

How a young scholar demystified the ancient oral tradition

Hearing Homer’s Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry by Robert Kanigel

Surviving the Anthropocene

Can we reverse-engineer our way out of catastrophe?

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert

Four Masks and a Funeral

On the loss of freedoms in Hong Kong

Hope Against the Storm

How American communities contend with rising sea levels

Sojourn in Stone

Traveling through memories from the comfort of home

Purísima y Oro

“A Letter” by Amrita Pritam

Poems read aloud, beautifully

TV’s Founding Mothers

The women who turned the small screen into a cultural phenomenon

When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

Jennifer Frank

Into the woods

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

Who Would I Be Off My Meds

Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistanceby Laura Delano

A Midsummer Night’s Stream
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A Midsummer Night’s Stream

American Carthage
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Echoes from the ancient conflicts between Hannibal’s city and Rome continue to reverberate well into the present

Who’s to Say?
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A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity

Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesusby Elaine Pagels

Learning to Be Social
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What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?

Chapters and Verse

Looking for the poet between the lines

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetryby Adam Plunkett

Asteroid Hunters
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The scientists and engineers who defend our planet day and night from potentially hazardous space rocks

The Murderer as Everyman
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Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall

Lessons From Harlem
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A white blues player’s streetside education

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