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Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 17, 2025

SPOTLIGHT

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 17, 2025

Old fashioned mailbox that says LETTERS

Read Emily’s Mind

Photo of two hands holding an iPhone

Words Under Siege

How Big Tech’s intrusion into public and private life undermines the promise of democracy

Portrait of the Artist

Amelia Hankin

Dreamcatching

Smarty Pants Podcast

Little Boxes, Big Ideas

Looking to America’s history of experimental suburbs to solve the housing crisis

Asturias Days

What’s with That?

Read Me a Poem

“Aubade” by Philip Larkin

Poems read aloud, beautifully

A photograph of the violinist Michael Rabin as a young man
Measure by Measure

An American Prodigy

Remembering Michael Rabin

View from Rue Saint-Georges

Disconnection in a Connected Age

On the mixed blessing of technological advancement

A black and white photograph of a subway car

Poetic Metamorphosis

Next Line, Please

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Asturias Days

Casa Gorín

Read Me a Poem

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

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The Writer in the Family

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

Asturias Days

Birthday Boy

Read Me a Poem

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

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The Weight of a Stone

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

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