SPOTLIGHT

On the Trail of Jeremiah

Robert Redford, the lure of the West, and the art of getting away

By David Gessner Monday, March 2, 2026

SPOTLIGHT

On the Trail of Jeremiah

Robert Redford, the lure of the West, and the art of getting away

By David Gessner Monday, March 2, 2026

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The Minotaur’s Muses

The romantic cruelty of a brilliant artist

Poetry

The Flagellation

Asturias Days

The Other

Read Me a Poem

“But Maybe God Needs Our Longing” by Nelly Sachs

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Article

Musings of a Savoyard

Searching for Gilbert and Sullivan in the 21st century

Article

The Carnifex of Cachtice

Shelley Puhak on the murderous legend of Elizabeth Bathory

Article

Netflix Goes to Vietnam

When a filmmaker wanted to understand the war that changed his father, he decided to make a documentary

Asturias Days

Never Admit It

Read Me a Poem

“Curtains” by Ruth Stone

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Web Essays

The Great Detached

As a journalist, Tom Wolfe’s greatest asset was his emotional distance from his subjects

View from Rue Saint-Georges

Make Them Work

A different sort of moral obligation

Next Line, Please

We Want a Hero

Portrait of the Artist

Carole D’Inverno

Breaking Mountains

Asturias Days

Do or Make

Smarty Pants Podcast

Stitching History

What an old quilt can teach us about antebellum America

Measure by Measure

The Conquered Ear

Roger Sessions’s Eighth Symphony, 50 years after its premiere

View from Rue Saint-Georges

Kanye and Ta-Nehisi

“This is my life, homie, you decide yours”

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