SPOTLIGHT

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 17, 2025

SPOTLIGHT

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 17, 2025

Next Line, Please

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

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Casa Gorín

Read Me a Poem

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Book Reviews

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

Article

The Writer in the Family

The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero

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Birthday Boy

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“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

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Portrait of the Artist

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

Article

The Weight of a Stone

Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology

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The SEAT 600

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Second-Class Students No More

An excerpt from Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University by Theodore D. Segal

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God, Can You Hear Me?

Many young evangelicals are beginning to question the packaged truths offered in megachurches

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Amber Vittoria

Somewhere, inside the rainbow

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The Tiger Conundrum

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Rage Against Reason

What Seneca could teach us about our inflamed passions

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Lo Que Quiera

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