SPOTLIGHT

“The Return” by Philip Levine

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, April 14, 2026

SPOTLIGHT

“The Return” by Philip Levine

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Measure by Measure

On St. Cecilia’s Day

Handel’s ode for November 22

View from Rue Saint-Georges

Bill of Health

The shock of entering the American health-care system

Portrait of the Artist

Jane Swavely

Neon Forests

Asturias Days

Adam’s Apple

Read Me a Poem

“The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” by Edward Lear

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Smarty Pants Podcast

Through a Lens Darkly

A photographer on how we represent conflict

Measure by Measure

The Virtuoso as Aristocrat

Jorge Bolet and one memorable night in 1974

View from Rue Saint-Georges

Guessing Games

What you can tell about people—and what you can’t

Book Reviews

How the West Won

A great Texas novelist whose message succumbed to myth

Article

First Love, Faded Bloom

Rereading Gone with the Wind on a trip through the South

Asturias Days

The World, Near and Long

Read Me a Poem

“Only Voice Remains” by Forugh Farrokhzad

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Delvin Lugo

Chosen family

Smarty Pants Podcast

Hue and Cry

Kory Stamper on the weird ways we define color

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Words, Words, Words

How artists turned the canon against congressional inquisitors

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I’ll See You at Passover

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