“He Asked About the Quality” by C. P. Cavafy

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Survival Situation

The debate over evolution and its discoverer

Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin by Howard Markel

Tunneling to Freedom

In The Great Escape (1963), the true story of a harrowing breakout from a German POW camp

“Death Fugue” by Paul Celan

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Rescuer

In search of the Underground Railroad’s legendary conductor

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles

A Forgotten Turner Classic

Who was George Eyser, the one-legged German-American gymnast who astounded at the Olympic Games?

Facing the Facts

An antiquated take on antiquity

The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World by Daisy Dunn

Corona Chasers

You never forget your first solar eclipse

The Given Child
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To what lengths would a mother go to ensure her family’s survival in a remote Himalayan village?

Numbers Game

A novelist’s indictment of how we account for our history

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan

The Writer in the Family

The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

The Weight of a Stone

Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology

New Year, Old Year

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

Ho Ho Horror

Why not make this Christmas a little darker?

A Story for Christmas

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