SPOTLIGHT

Kat Wiese

Taking flight

By Noelani Kirschner Monday, November 18, 2024

SPOTLIGHT

Kat Wiese

Taking flight

By Noelani Kirschner Monday, November 18, 2024

Smarty Pants Podcast

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Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things

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The Patron Subjects

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

Asturias Days

All in Your Head

Read Me a Poem

“A Prayer for My Daughter” by W. B. Yeats

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Web Essays

My Cousin Manya

One survivor’s story

Book Reviews

Heart of Semi-Darkness

A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors

Asturias Days

Poco a Poco

Read Me a Poem

“To David, About His Education” by Howard Nemerov

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Dottie Lo Bue

House and home

Article

Strength and Conditioning

Whether teaching history in the segregated South or winning Super Bowls as an NFL coach, Johnny Parker has encouraged his charges to strive for a certain kind of greatness

Book Reviews

Chain Gang

The personalities behind one of Rome’s greatest treasures

Asturias Days

Teaching and Telling

Read Me a Poem

“The Sick Wife” by Jane Kenyon

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Kate Jarvik Birch

Finding beauty in the mundane

Web Essays

The Very Elder Statesman

Konrad Adenauer transformed West Germany, doing his best work as an octogenarian

Article

The Dragon Amid the Tigers

Ever since a weeks-long war in 1962, the influence of Chinese culture on the lives of many Indians hasn’t always been so evident

Asturias Days

In-Between Time

Read Me a Poem

“Snow” by David Berman

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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