Like People in Novels

November: A Sonnet

Christina A. West

Enter the Green Screen

Mucho Ruido y Pocas Nueces

“Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Of Poets and Patriarchs

The hidden paternal influence on three great Irish writers

Bad Blood

Why the 17th-century vampire still haunts us today

Ein Prosit!

Sometimes wine is the best medicine

An Epigraph in Search of a Poem

Anne Hayden Stevens

Woman Meets Nature

The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday

Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apartby Nicholas Carr

Burned

“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend

How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine

Cudillero

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

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