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“I Love to See the Summer Beaming Forth” by John Clare

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Bird of America

Jack E. Davis on how we revere and revile the bald eagle

The Dinner Party

Certain things shouldn’t be brought up at the dinner table, but in our fraught time, that’s nearly impossible

Loyalty

“Adlestrop” by Edward Thomas

Poems read aloud, beautifully

From Counterculture to Culture

How a teenage rebel rose to the summit of British literary life

Illustration of a vintage blue car against a yellow background

Life Is a Highway

Dan Albert on how car culture swallowed America

Wicked Brew

The King and I

The Resistance Fighter as Philosopher

Remembering Vladimir Jankélévitch

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

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