SPOTLIGHT

The Sound of the Picturesque

Charles Ives and the Visual

By Tim Barringer Friday, September 13, 2024

SPOTLIGHT

The Sound of the Picturesque

Charles Ives and the Visual

By Tim Barringer Friday, September 13, 2024

Charles Ives at 150

Battle Hymns

Charles Ives and the Civil War

Asturias Days

Cancer

Read Me a Poem

“The Bird of Night” by Randall Jarrell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Charles Ives at 150

Anchoring Shards of Memory

We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both
composers mined the past to root themselves in an unstable present

Charles Ives at 150

The Power of the Common Soul

Ives, music-making, and hope

Smarty Pants Podcast

A Toothsome Tale

Bill Schutt chomps through millennia to share the story of our pearly whites

Web Essays

Writer on Board

The cruise story from Twain to Shteyngart

Asturias Days

Guillermo

Works in Progress

Under the Passaic Falls

Photographing an abandoned community

Cover Story

In the Labyrinth of #MeToo

Addressing sexual aggression and power in contemporary society also means questioning what the feminist movement has really been about

Works in Progress

The Traveler in a Shrinking World

Four questions on the future of world travel

Book Reviews

Robben Island Days

A South African leader’s jailhouse correspondence during apartheid

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Monstrous Achievement

Two hundred years on, a writer’s cautionary tale still captivates

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Working for Bobby

Fifty years ago, I campaigned for RFK for president, and was nearby when the dream died with him

Works in Progress

The Times They Are a-Changin’

In the music industry, pushing for gender equality is key

Article

The End of Liberalism

What happens when public opinion is diminished and popular sentiment is aroused

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