Hashtag Lit

Leah Price on how books were social media all along

The Story of a Stare Down

How two antagonists from Tudor England ended up facing each other on Fifth Avenue

On the Road

An excerpt from Vagabond: Venice Beach, Slab City and Points in Between by Ceilidh Michelle

Vagabond: Venice Beach, Slab City, and Points in Between by Ceilidh Michelle

The House

“Tell all the truth but tell it slant” by Emily Dickinson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Janine Brown

Emptiness and Form

A Prophecy Unfulfilled?

What a new book and six companion videos have to say about the fate of Black classical music in America

No Place Is Perfect

Adrian Shirk on the search for American utopia

Inside the Burns Unit

How Scotland’s national poet brought solace at a time of pain and isolation

Two and Counting

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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