The Depths

“Sometimes, Oh, Often, Indeed” by Edna St. Vincent Millay 

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tales of Mercy and Sacrifice

An Italian scholar’s exploration of the Hebrew Bible

The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso (translated from the Italian by Tim Parks)

Amy Brener

Totems to Knick-Knacks

The Prophecy of an Assassination

John Frankenheimer’s prescient 1962 film, The Manchurian Candidate

Strokes of Genius

Jing Tsu on how the Chinese language survived the modern world

Lessons From an Unwritten Autobiography

From doubt and despair to faith and love

The Long Room

“A Litany of Survival” by Audre Lorde

Poems read aloud, beautifully

New York Was Very Heaven

The midcentury newcomers who reshaped the art world

The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942–2011 by Edith Schloss

Something New in the West

Kurt Beals on translating All Quiet on the Western Front

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

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