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Thanatos Rising
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“The Idea of Order at Key West” by Wallace Stevens
Poems read aloud, beautifully
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Beckett the Prophet
We are all, it seems, still waiting for Godot
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My Teacher
Through periods both fallow and rich, Lore Segal knew only one way to spend her days—by writing
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Bending Toward Justice
Rejecting the “race riot” myth means facing the ugly truth
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“The Bean-Stalk” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poems read aloud, beautifully
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Going Dutch
In these relentlessly disruptive times, 17th-century canvases from the Netherlands can provide moments of solace and hope
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Tuskegee Truth Teller
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Banned Books Week draws attention to free speech, intellectual freedom, and the right to quietly read a good novel
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Relationships doomed, damned, or otherwise disappointing
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A Tale of War and Forgetting
Rescuing the memory of a cataclysm
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Plus: Jonathan Weiner on the nature of memory, Amanda L. Andrei on translating from the Romanian, Richard Tillinghast on Charles Portis, and much more
Plus: Jonathan Weiner on the nature of memory, Amanda L. Andrei on translating from the Romanian, Richard Tillinghast on Charles Portis, and much more
Found in Translation
The act of rendering plays from Romanian to English has allowed me to discover my family’s past—and myself
By Amanda L. Andrei Thursday, June 25, 2026
You Must Remember This
On the nature of autobiographical memory
By Jonathan Weiner Monday, June 1, 2026
Inside Man
A young reporter’s devastating exposé of the amoral elite
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Things Fall Apart
A meditation on entropy, obsolescence, and death
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, June 1, 2026
Into the Wilds
The tangled terrain of untrammeled lands
By Miranda Weiss Monday, June 1, 2026
Found in Translation
The act of rendering plays from Romanian to English has allowed me to discover my family’s past—and myself
By Amanda L. Andrei Thursday, June 25, 2026
You Must Remember This
On the nature of autobiographical memory
By Jonathan Weiner Monday, June 1, 2026
Inside Man
A young reporter’s devastating exposé of the amoral elite
By Anne Matthews Monday, June 1, 2026
Things Fall Apart
A meditation on entropy, obsolescence, and death
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, June 1, 2026
Into the Wilds
The tangled terrain of untrammeled lands