SPOTLIGHT

“I Have Had My Vision”

Three prompts

By David Lehman Friday, November 22, 2024

SPOTLIGHT

“I Have Had My Vision”

Three prompts

By David Lehman Friday, November 22, 2024

Tuning Up

Just When You Thought It Wasn’t Safe …

How Wilbert Longfellow turned America into a nation of swimmers

Essays

Imperfecta

Her brother’s disease leads a writer to challenge how we conceive of human abnormality in the emerging era of gene editing

Asturias Days

Mystery Solved!

Read Me a Poem

“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Chris Combs

Surveillance state

Web Essays

Consummated in Exile

A new recording of Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances conveys the breadth of the 20th-century composer’s life’s journey

Asturias Days

Agent 37

Read Me a Poem

“He Asked About the Quality” by C. P. Cavafy

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Book Reviews

Survival Situation

The debate over evolution and its discoverer

Web Essays

The Baritone as Democrat

How Lawrence Tibbett prophesied the Metropolitan Opera crisis of today

Asturias Days

Échame la Culpa

Read Me a Poem

“Defeat” by Kahlil Gibran

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Kat Wiese

Taking flight

Smarty Pants Podcast

Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming

Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things

Tuning Up

The Patron Subjects

Who were the Wertheimers, the family that sat for a dozen of John Singer Sargent’s paintings?

Asturias Days

All in Your Head

Read Me a Poem

“A Prayer for My Daughter” by W. B. Yeats

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Web Essays

My Cousin Manya

One survivor’s story

NEWSLETTER

Please enter a valid email address
That address is already in use
The security code entered was incorrect
Thanks for signing up

current issue

Charles Ives at 150

Anchoring Shards of Memory

We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both
composers mined the past to root themselves in an unstable present

Commonplace Book

Autumn 2024

Book Reviews

Imperiled Planet

The ecological havoc we’ve wrought

Book Reviews

A Stranger in the Seven Hills

A refugee’s experience in the Eternal City

Anniversaries

Remembering James Baldwin

Charles Ives at 150

Anchoring Shards of Memory

We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both
composers mined the past to root themselves in an unstable present

Commonplace Book

Autumn 2024

Book Reviews

Imperiled Planet

The ecological havoc we’ve wrought

Book Reviews

A Stranger in the Seven Hills

A refugee’s experience in the Eternal City

Anniversaries

Remembering James Baldwin