SPOTLIGHT

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

By Sam Kean Thursday, January 30, 2025

SPOTLIGHT

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

By Sam Kean Thursday, January 30, 2025

Read Me a Poem

From All Souls by Saskia Hamilton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Smarty Pants Podcast

This Woman’s Work

Susannah Gibson opens the parlor doors on 18th-century feminism

Tuning Up

Adventures With Jean

Striking up a friendship with an older writer meant accepting the risk of getting hurt

Asturias Days

What Comes Naturally

Read Me a Poem

“The Gaffe” by C. K. Williams

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Bony Ramirez

Beautiful parasites

Books Essay

A Poet of the Soil

The legacy of a writer who struggled with his celebrity

Book Reviews

For Want of Touch

The astonishing breadth of our passions

Asturias Days

Good Intentions

Asturias Days

Burned

Read Me a Poem

“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

Article

The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend

How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)
Book Reviews

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Asturias Days

Cudillero

Read Me a Poem

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Smarty Pants Podcast

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Next Line, Please

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

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