Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

The Weight of a Stone

Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology

New Year, Old Year

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

Ho Ho Horror

Why not make this Christmas a little darker?

A Story for Christmas

“Snow” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

“The Night Alarm” by Veronika Tushnova

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Man vs. Mosquito

Timothy Winegard on how this irritating insect changed human history—for better and for worse

Projections of Life

Memories of a Midwestern childhood and the stories only pictures can tell

The Music Men

“When I Love You” by Nizar Qabbani

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Josie Del Castillo

The beating heart of the borderland

The Falcon’s Odd Little Cousin

Jonathan Meiburg on the smartest bird you’ve never heard of

Sea Changes

Navigating the currents of midlife—and redefining home along the way

Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Yearsby Heidi Julavits

Royal Electric

“En Route” by Adam Zagajewski

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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