SPOTLIGHT

“Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, February 18, 2025

SPOTLIGHT

“Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Measure by Measure

A Sunset in Song

Ottorino Respighi and Percy Bysshe Shelley

View from Rue Saint-Georges

City of Wonder

Venice reminds us that life is full of hope and possibility

Cover Story

Stress Test for Free Speech

Social media are destroying the democratic culture that the First Amendment is meant to protect

Essays

Dangerous Ground

When confronting matters of race, some boundaries are more easily breached than others

Essays

Present Tense

Even in this interminable drugstore line, my daughter’s last summer before college is slipping by far too quickly

Essays

My Family’s Siberian Exile

A writer pieces together the forgotten history of life in Stalin’s special settlements

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Broken Boulders

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Me First

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David Levering Lewis digs into his own origin story

Book Reviews

In the Lions’ Studio

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Such People

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“My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer” by Mark Strand

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Portrait of the Artist

Kyung Kim

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The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday

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