SPOTLIGHT

“Snow” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 24, 2024

SPOTLIGHT

“Snow” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Portrait of the Artist

Janet Loren Hill

Decontextualized viewpoints

Smarty Pants Podcast

Dying for Fashion

Dana Thomas on how our hunger for new clothes damages the environment and exploits workers

Fiction

Epithalamium

“I got a collar for the boy, a nice leather number with steel studs that made him look a touch mean and inspired me to get myself a steel-studded camera harness, and off we’d walk, miles a day between jobs.”

Asturias Days

Every Stone

Read Me a Poem

“I Am Learning to Abandon the World” by Linda Pastan

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Web Essays

Alcaraz’s World

The future of men’s tennis is now

Smarty Pants Podcast

On the Line

Karen Pinchin on what tuna reveal about the fate of our oceans

Web Essays

“Better Asians than Blacks”

What we’re missing about the SCOTUS decision on race-conscious admissions

Asturias Days

What’s in a Name?

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”

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Smarty Pants Podcast

Kinship and Contradictions

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity

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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

Read Me a Poem

“Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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