“My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer” by Mark Strand
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, February 11, 2025
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
By Rosanna Warren Thursday, February 6, 2025
“The Frog Prince” by Stevie Smith
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, February 4, 2025
The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday
Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 31, 2025
“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Orwell’s Last Neighborhood
While envisioning the darkest of futures and grappling with mortality, the English writer retreated to an idyllic Scottish isle to write Nineteen Eighty-Four
By David Brown Monday, March 4, 2019
The Ghosts in the Hills
“One person’s secluded paradise is another person’s isolated nightmare.”
By Kelly McMasters Monday, March 4, 2019
The Fantastical Little Dyer
Few artists could match Tintoretto’s mastery of color and form—or his sense of playfulness
By Ingrid D. Rowland Monday, March 4, 2019
At Play in the Fields of the Bored
America’s newest city parks are chock-full of things to do—but what happened to the delights of idle time in a natural setting?
By John King Monday, March 4, 2019
Prophets of the Avant-Garde
How two power couples changed the world of art
By Meryle Secrest Monday, March 4, 2019
Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsburyby Carolyn Burke
His Life Spoke Volumes
The man behind the great Enlightenment encyclopedia
By Tom Chaffin Monday, March 4, 2019
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freelyby Andrew S. Curran
The Man Behind the Counter 
A neighborhood grocer, inscrutable and gruff, lingers mysteriously in my memory
By Lynne Sharon Schwartz Monday, March 4, 2019
