SPOTLIGHT

Spinning a Web

By Clellan Coe Wednesday, March 11, 2026

SPOTLIGHT

Spinning a Web

By Clellan Coe Wednesday, March 11, 2026

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

Poetry

The Flagellation

Book Reviews

Continental Drift

Westward expansion delayed a needed national reckoning

Essays

Present-Day Thoughts on the Quality of Life (1969)

Jacques Barzun delivered this lecture half a century ago

Works in Progress

The Lost Lakes of Iran

A drought takes its toll

Web Essays

“The Worse It Gets, the Closer We Are to Renovation”

An interview with Jacques Barzun

Works in Progress

Growing Up

Five questions about the future of cities

Works in Progress

Renaissance Woman

Recognizing the female actors, dancers, and singers of 1920s Harlem

Essays

The Hedgehog’s Great Escape

A young Frenchwoman who ran the Allies’ most persistent spy group was in the Gestapo’s grasp

Works in Progress

Alone, Together

Do coffee shops encourage conversation or isolation?

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