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Thinking in the Margins
What Oliver Sacks jotted down in the books he read
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“A Birthday Present” by Sylvia Plath
Poems read aloud, beautifully
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Lede-ing Ladies
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Your Perspective or Mine?
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“In Love You Rise” by Ibrahim Nasrallah
Poems read aloud, beautifully
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The Matriarch of Spiritual Revolution
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“A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts” by Wallace Stevens
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, September 30, 2025
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A Visit to Epidaurus
When a play ends with a dismemberment, the effect on the audience can be transformative
By Rachel Shteir Friday, September 26, 2025
Days of Awe
The Romantics sought the sublime in nature, but the feeling may be experienced in humanity, too
By Robert Zaretsky Thursday, September 25, 2025
“I Am Waiting” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Scrolling Through
Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road
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Plus: David Gessner meets Robert Redford, Elizabeth D. Samet talks AI and baseball, Adam Hochschild goes to Lviv, and much more
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Robert Redford, the lure of the West, and the art of getting away
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Who Is Thinking?
The quest to discover the answer to an age-old question
By T. M. Luhrmann Monday, March 2, 2026
‘In the Presence of People No Longer Here’ 
Historians in the Ukrainian city of Lviv are documenting the horrors of the past while living in the shadow of war
By Adam Hochschild Monday, March 2, 2026
First Love, Faded Bloom
Rereading Gone with the Wind on a trip through the South
By Joy Lanzendorfer Monday, March 2, 2026
On the Trail of Jeremiah
Robert Redford, the lure of the West, and the art of getting away
By David Gessner Monday, March 2, 2026
Who Is Thinking?
The quest to discover the answer to an age-old question
By T. M. Luhrmann Monday, March 2, 2026
‘In the Presence of People No Longer Here’
Historians in the Ukrainian city of Lviv are documenting the horrors of the past while living in the shadow of war
By Adam Hochschild Monday, March 2, 2026
First Love, Faded Bloom
Rereading Gone with the Wind on a trip through the South
By Joy Lanzendorfer Monday, March 2, 2026
