Lady of the Lake

Writer Brenda Ueland and the story she never shared

Four Poems

Apologies All Around

Today’s tendency to make amends for the crimes of history raises the question: where do we stop?

Findings: Amateurism

From the Spring 1976 issue of The Scholar

Cornerstones

Death on the Installment Plan

Growing old gracefully the Rolling Stones way

Inshallah

The war in Iraq might leave us a new word to match a new sense of our own limitations

Response to Our Spring Issue

Thinking About Work

Peter Drucker taught us why we need to know what the boss is up to

Winter Sun

“The Vow” by Yuliya Musakovska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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

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