SPOTLIGHT

Magic Men

By Elizabeth Denton Friday, December 6, 2024

SPOTLIGHT

Magic Men

By Elizabeth Denton Friday, December 6, 2024

Book Reviews

Aging Out

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night

Asturias Days

Braña Curuchu

Cover Story

Under a Spell Everlasting

Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war

Smarty Pants Podcast

Overconsumed

Adam Minter on what happens to all the stuff we downsize, declutter, and discard

Asturias Days

Ups and Downs

Read Me a Poem

“how i got ovah” by Carolyn Rodgers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Web Essays

On Book

August Wilson’s play just hit the big screen, but even greater rewards await on the page

In Reprise: Next Line Please

“I Have Had My Vision”

Three prompts

Web Essays

The Baritone as Democrat

How Lawrence Tibbett prophesied the Metropolitan Opera crisis of today

Asturias Days

Échame la Culpa

Read Me a Poem

“Defeat” by Kahlil Gibran

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Kat Wiese

Taking flight

Smarty Pants Podcast

Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming

Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things

Tuning Up

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

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