The Days After

Remembering Samantha Smith, the girl who dared to dream of peace at a time when so many feared a global war

Routine

“The Bean Eaters” by Gwendolyn Brooks

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit

“There was the rabbit lying in the middle of the road, legs limp but twitching before its head sagged and went still.”

A Clean, Well-Ordered Place

An ode to the grocery store

The River

“The Watcher” by Rainer Maria Rilke

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Connect or Die

The high cost of going it alone

This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity by Richard Deming

Fluttering Bird

Lindsey Weber

Relationships that define us

“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

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