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

Magnífico

“The Ups and Downs of the Elevator Car” by Caroline D. Emerson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

People ride e-scooters through a Parisian plaza

Scootering Around Town

The automobile’s appeal is in decline thanks to the proliferation of alternatives

A photo of a metal faucet

A City in Crisis

An excerpt from Flint Fights Back by Benjamin J. Pauli

Flint Fights Backby Benjamin J. Pauli

Amelia Hankin

Dreamcatching

Little Boxes, Big Ideas

Looking to America’s history of experimental suburbs to solve the housing crisis

What’s with That?

“Aubade” by Philip Larkin

Poems read aloud, beautifully

A photograph of the violinist Michael Rabin as a young man

An American Prodigy

Remembering Michael Rabin

Disconnection in a Connected Age

On the mixed blessing of technological advancement

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