SPOTLIGHT

A Story for Christmas

By Clellan Coe Wednesday, December 25, 2024

SPOTLIGHT

A Story for Christmas

By Clellan Coe Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Read Me a Poem

“Tristan da Cunha” by Roy Campbell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Smarty Pants Podcast

Paradise Reclaimed

Olivia Laing on the dark histories and utopian dreams of the flower bed

Gallery

Femmes Fantastiques

Mickalene Thomas and the art of remixing

Asturias Days

The Support Ship

Read Me a Poem

“The Last Words of My English Grandmother”

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Sheep Jones

Swimming below the surface

Essays

Martha Foley’s Granddaughters

What the esteemed literary editor never knew about the life of her troubled son, David Burnett

Asturias Days

Last Laugh

Read Me a Poem

“À une passante” by Charles Baudelaire

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Asturias Days

A Story for Christmas

Read Me a Poem

“Snow” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Article

Double Exposure

On our first memories

Web Essays

The Diagnostician of Despair

Why Rousseau believed that Enlightenment values would lead us to ruin

Asturias Days

Such as It Is

Read Me a Poem

“Guests” by Celia Thaxter 

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Next Line, Please

“What a Strange Path”

Three new prompts

Smarty Pants Podcast

Kinship and Contradictions

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity

Tuning Up

Verde

Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew

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