SPOTLIGHT

“Muse Circe Reclaims Her Lucre”

Five new prompts

By David Lehman Friday, February 21, 2025

SPOTLIGHT

“Muse Circe Reclaims Her Lucre”

Five new prompts

By David Lehman Friday, February 21, 2025

Tuning Up

In the Endless Arctic Light

A journey to the far north of Norway means confronting our changing climate

Asturias Days

The Bears

Read Me a Poem

“Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Smarty Pants Podcast

Family/History

David Levering Lewis digs into his own origin story

Book Reviews

In the Lions’ Studio

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Asturias Days

Such People

Read Me a Poem

“My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer” by Mark Strand

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Kyung Kim

Far over the misty mountains

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The Fair Fields

Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil

Smarty Pants Podcast

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One man’s quest to uncover Europe’s oldest surviving folk music

Web Essays

The Half-Century What If?

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View from Rue Saint-Georges

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Web Essays

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La Bronca

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Revenge of the Nerds

How geek culture finally triumphed

Measure by Measure

The Man Who Loved Proust

Reynaldo Hahn and the sounds of the beautiful age

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