Such People

“My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer” by Mark Strand

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Kyung Kim

Far over the misty mountains

The Fair Fields

Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil

Just Yesterday

“The Frog Prince” by Stevie Smith

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday

Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr

Burned

“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Anne Austin Pearce

A Return to Nature

The Space Between Our Ears

How movement, gesture, and spatial reasoning form the foundation of thoughts

Hay Tomate

Close-up photograph of dandelions, with storm clouds in the background

May: A Sonnet

Stylized sepia photograph of John Knowles Paine

A Symphony for Springtime

Or, when is an American symphony not American enough?

Two children, one black and one white, play in an airport terminal in the 1960s

Life in Black and White

A new volume commemorates the work of a brilliant photographer of the 1960s

Yvonne Claveloux

Bursts of Color

A stylized pink-and-white cat toy waves hello

Totes Adorbs

A philosopher digs into the subversive meaning of “cuteness”

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