SPOTLIGHT

Something New in the West

Kurt Beals on translating All Quiet on the Western Front

By Stephanie Bastek Friday, February 28, 2025

SPOTLIGHT

Something New in the West

Kurt Beals on translating All Quiet on the Western Front

By Stephanie Bastek Friday, February 28, 2025

Article

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A seminal essay about walking the streets of London can present challenges in the classrooms of today

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Bitten

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“Planetarium” by Adrienne Rich

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Laura S. Lewis

Welding trash into treasure

Smarty Pants Podcast

American Modernism’s Lost Boy-King

The late, great Paul Auster on Stephen Crane

Article

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Reflecting on one of nature’s most dangerous predators

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Book Reviews

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What if the goal is not to make it out of the neighborhood?

Web Essays

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Remembering Vladimir Jankélévitch

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Winter Sun

Read Me a Poem

“The Vow” by Yuliya Musakovska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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Lindsey Weber

Relationships that define us

Next Line, Please

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Five new prompts

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The Bears

Read Me a Poem

“Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Smarty Pants Podcast

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David Levering Lewis digs into his own origin story

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