The Writer in the Family

The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero

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

From Counterculture to Culture

How a teenage rebel rose to the summit of British literary life

Illustration of a vintage blue car against a yellow background

Life Is a Highway

Dan Albert on how car culture swallowed America

Wicked Brew

The King and I

“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Samantha Bittman

Flipping the Script (or Loom)

The Last Cigarette

Cinema’s most seductive prop

Crowdsourced Clairvoyance

Sam Knight on the psychiatrist who tried to predict disaster

Voices of the Displaced

The plight of Ukraine’s refugees in Poland

The Runaway

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