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For Better or for Wurst

Jamie Loftus on the wild American world of hot dogs

By Stephanie Bastek Friday, May 15, 2026

SPOTLIGHT

For Better or for Wurst

Jamie Loftus on the wild American world of hot dogs

By Stephanie Bastek Friday, May 15, 2026

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The Final Word

The death of Gabby Petito and the uncomfortable intimacy of vocal re-creation software

Asturias Days

Wonderful Life

Read Me a Poem

“The Boy Died in My Alley” by Gwendolyn Brooks

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tuning Up

Night Shade

After my husband died, why did he continue to haunt my dreams?  

Article

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Historians in the Ukrainian city of Lviv are documenting the horrors of the past while living in the shadow of war

Book Reviews

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The quest to discover the answer to an age-old question

Asturias Days

The List

Read Me a Poem

“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” by Robert Browning

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Kati Gegenheimer

The importance of being “painfully earnest”

Web Essays

Not Waving

Frank Delaney and the nearing tide

Measure by Measure

Rites of Spring

Virgil Thomson’s Feast of Love

View from Rue Saint-Georges

The Bitter Truth

A culture exemplified by an over-sweet cuppa joe

Reverse Scrabble

Portrait of the Artist

Ambreen Butt

Mark My Words

Smarty Pants Podcast

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Emily Bernard’s essays explore her own experience of race in America

Asturias Days

Valporquero

Read Me a Poem

“Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen

Poems read aloud, beautifully

View from Rue Saint-Georges

Double Lives

What is truth in an un-heroic age?

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