Ann Provan

Where the Staircase Ends

Ku Klux Khaki

The far right’s signature style is less about dad pants and more about fatherhood

New Name for an Old Ceremony

Gregory Smithers on two-spirits in Indigenous American history

The Scar on the Hand

Writers and the early loss of parents

South, North, and Underfoot

“Nevertheless” by Marianne Moore

Poems read aloud, beautifully

A Name Not Writ in Water

Revisiting an immortal 19th-century English poet

Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller

Indiana Absurd

Tiffany Tsao on translating a beguiling Indonesian short-story collection

The Last Naturalist

A zoologist happiest in the fields and streams of Ohio wrote major works about the state’s birds and fishes

Thursday in Madrid

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

The Writer in the Family

The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

The Weight of a Stone

Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology

New Year, Old Year

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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