Armed for a Pandemic

A dance troupe’s film project holds loneliness at bay

Christina Watka

Fragments of light

The Rollout We Deserve

Our tolerance for piecemeal health care has led to the Covid-19 vaccination mess

Red Star Avant Garde

How contemporary artists made China modern

“A Refreshing Change Is in Your Future”

Making art out of fortune-cookie wisdom

North to Alaska

“Funeral Blues” by W.H. Auden

Order Amid Chaos

A poet-scientist considers the imponderables of existence

Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings by Alan Lightman

What’s Happening in Myanmar

Understanding the military coup in Myanmar

The Word—and Weird—of God

An excerpt from A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible by Kristen Swenson

Jayne Ross

“Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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

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