“Spring” by J. R. Solonche

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Hometown Heroes

What if the goal is not to make it out of the neighborhood?

There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

Let Us Compare Mythologies

Exploding the Canon, Episode 4

Stereotypes and the City

 What to make of HBO’s attempts to diversify an iconic show?

Bridges

“The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Bastienne Schmidt

The fabric of life

Interlude: The Idea of “The West”

A brief look at a grand narrative

Snow!

“Muse Circe Reclaims Her Lucre”

Five new prompts

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

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