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

Article

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

View from Rue Saint-Georges

Time Well Spent

The life-affirming pleasure of childcare

Snails

Watching for signs of wildlife

Web Essays

The Year That Spring Did Not Come

Looking back on the turmoil of 1968

Book Reviews

Literary Life on the Rocks

A writer’s own ordeal highlights the banal sameness of addiction

Arts

Galleries of the World

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Article

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Friendship, faith, and love, for starters—yet our relationships with our canine companions contain many more unfathomable mysteries

Arts

Going Dutch

In these relentlessly disruptive times, 17th-century canvases from the Netherlands can provide moments of solace and hope

Article

Tuskegee Truth Teller

Peter Buxtun, like many medical whistleblowers, got little thanks for exposing a notorious scandal

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