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The knowledge of approaching death may allow some of us to experience time in new and liberating ways

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Three Poems

A Ray of Sunshine

“The Poet’s Occasional Alternative” by Grace Paley

Poems read aloud, beautifully

A Rebel to Remember

Gregory P. Downs on the late Anthony E. Kaye’s groundbreaking history of Nat Turner

Riding With Mr. Washington

How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction

Parque de la Música

“I Will Greet the Sun Again” by Forugh Farrokhzad

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Paolo Arao

Acts of devotion

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

In the Lions’ Studio

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equationby Kenneth Turan

Such People

“My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer” by Mark Strand

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Kyung Kim

Far over the misty mountains

The Fair Fields

Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil

Just Yesterday

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