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

American Places

The Hardworking Places of Vermont

Paintings of barnyards, gas stations, and silos

Essays

Orwell’s Last Neighborhood

While envisioning the darkest of futures and grappling with mortality, the English writer retreated to an idyllic Scottish isle to write Nineteen Eighty-Four

Works in Progress

The Ghosts in the Hills

“One person’s secluded paradise is another person’s isolated nightmare.”

Arts

The Fantastical Little Dyer

Few artists could match Tintoretto’s mastery of color and form—or his sense of playfulness

Essays

At Play in the Fields of the Bored

America’s newest city parks are chock-full of things to do—but what happened to the delights of idle time in a natural setting?

Book Reviews

His Life Spoke Volumes

The man behind the great Enlightenment encyclopedia

Essays

The Man Behind the Counter
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A neighborhood grocer, inscrutable and gruff, lingers mysteriously in my memory

Editor's Note

Trials

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