“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

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

Indonesia and the West

From Debussy to Lou Harrison

Make Social Media Great Again

… Or at least tolerable

Unimposing Little Gems

Russell Baker was a columnist’s columnist

Susan E. Crowell

Sculpting Pollen

“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Take Me Back

Requiem for Fanny

Mendelssohn’s final expression of grief

The Art of Finding Time

(And finding time for art)

Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann

Immersion, Organically

January: A Sonnet

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