SPOTLIGHT

The List

By Clellan Coe Wednesday, May 6, 2026

SPOTLIGHT

The List

By Clellan Coe Wednesday, May 6, 2026

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”

Smarty Pants Podcast

Learn the Ropes of Estate Sailing

Kate Davis gives advice on secondhand scores

Article

Spreading the Good Word

Wilfrid Sheed’s essays pulsed with the energy of midcentury America

Asturias Days

Where Is Wilken?

Read Me a Poem

“Twilight: After Haying” by Jane Kenyon

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Article

The People’s Critic

Michael Steinberg’s profound insights on music transcended the ephemeral world of daily newspaper journalism

Web Essays

What He Stood For

How Angus Cameron, one of the most significant editors in the history of American publishing, responded to being targeted by the McCarthy blacklist

Tuning Up

Weekend Warriors

How are competitive kids’ sports changing America?

Asturias Days

Take Me Back

Measure by Measure

Requiem for Fanny

Mendelssohn’s final expression of grief

View from Rue Saint-Georges

The Art of Finding Time

(And finding time for art)

The Expanse of Spirit

Portrait of the Artist

Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann

Immersion, Organically

A Year of Sonnets

January: A Sonnet

Read Me a Poem

“Fever 103” by Sylvia Plath

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Asturias Days

Melting

View from Rue Saint-Georges

The Great Distraction

Why we talk about anything but climate change

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