SPOTLIGHT

Your Perspective or Mine?

A brief history of subjectivity

By Arthur Krystal Thursday, March 12, 2026

SPOTLIGHT

Your Perspective or Mine?

A brief history of subjectivity

By Arthur Krystal Thursday, March 12, 2026

Asturias Days

Spinning a Web

Read Me a Poem

“In Love You Rise” by Ibrahim Nasrallah

Poems read aloud, beautifully 

Portrait of the Artist

Jane Swavely

Chance elements

Smarty Pants Podcast

Eulogy for a Yenta

Jordy Rosenberg on his new novel, Night Night Fawn

Book Reviews

An American Prophet of the Natural World

Celebrating the magical mundane

Asturias Days

The Path

Read Me a Poem

“After Making Love We Hear Footsteps” by Galway Kinnell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Cover Story

On the Trail of Jeremiah

Robert Redford, the lure of the West, and the art of getting away

Book Reviews

The Minotaur’s Muses

The romantic cruelty of a brilliant artist

Measure by Measure

An Ives Fourth

Nostalgia or nightmare?

View from Rue Saint-Georges

Beating the Heat

Brittany is France’s best refuge from soaring temperatures

A picture of a statue of a man standing on a globe

Patricians and Peasants

Picture of a plate of spaghetti, hands in the background
Web Essays

Bless Us, O Instagram

The social media site has popularized grain bowls, kale smoothies—and a new form of prayer

Portrait of the Artist

Kim Sandara

The Color of Sound

Close-up photograph of a glass of lemonade
Poetry

July: A Sonnet

Read Me a Poem

“Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman” by Anne Sexton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Asturias Days

The Fox

Smarty Pants Podcast

How a Language Dies

Chronicling the disappearance of a remote Papua New Guinean tongue—and everything else that goes with it

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