“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

The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend

How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union by Richard Carwardine

Cudillero

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Danette Steele Jones

No place like home

Indian Wedding

Seinfeld had nothing on this

Sound and Silence

Georg Friedrich Haas and Mozart’s Requiem

Beating the Odds

Heresy and Quarrel

John Whalley

Sugar Maples

Found in Translation

A poet learns how to feel and see and think and sound in the language of his adopted home

A Brief History of Secession

Why Calexit might not be as crazy as you think

Boom and Bust

Capturing the boom and bust of fracking in the Bakken

More Than Human

The dawn of a technologically enhanced super-species is upon us

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

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