Good Vibrations

One eccentric’s desert landmark allows visitors to bathe in sound

The Spirit of ’68

Exploding the Canon, Episode 3

Ripeness Is All

What may be the fate of classical music’s new superstars?

Tres Delicias

“Nostos” by Louise Glück

Lior Modan

Sculpting shadow

Reedies Against Racism

Exploding the Canon, Episode 2

I So Wish That You Remembered

The gift of song from a daughter to her elderly mother

Hiatus

“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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