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

Women in profile reading on the beach
Web Essays

The Great Summer Read

Why do we persist in this often futile literary quest?

Portrait of the Artist

Alexis Granwell

Sculpting Paintings

Illustration of a vintage blue car against a yellow background
Smarty Pants Podcast

Stick Shifts and Safety Belts

How car culture swallowed America

Asturias Days

A Breath of Air

Read Me a Poem

An Excerpt from William Wordsworth’s Prelude

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Pink daisies facing the sunset
Poetry

June: A Sonnet

Measure by Measure

A Mexican Mosaic

Carlos Chávez’s Indian Symphony

View from Rue Saint-Georges

The Best and Worst of Times

A weekend trip exposes France’s contradictions

Black and white "walk" sign

Impromptu

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