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

“how i got ovah” by Carolyn Rodgers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Web Essays

On Book

August Wilson’s play just hit the big screen, but even greater rewards await on the page

In Reprise: Next Line Please

“I Have Had My Vision”

Three prompts

Web Essays

The Baritone as Democrat

How Lawrence Tibbett prophesied the Metropolitan Opera crisis of today

Asturias Days

Échame la Culpa

Read Me a Poem

“Defeat” by Kahlil Gibran

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Kat Wiese

Taking flight

Smarty Pants Podcast

Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming

Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things

Tuning Up

The Patron Subjects

Who were the Wertheimers, the family that sat for a dozen of John Singer Sargent’s paintings?

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

Asturias Days

Cats and Dogs

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