SPOTLIGHT
“A Birthday Present” by Sylvia Plath
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, March 17, 2026
SPOTLIGHT
“A Birthday Present” by Sylvia Plath
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Lede-ing Ladies
How female foreign correspondents transformed journalism
By Anne Matthews Monday, March 16, 2026
Your Perspective or Mine?
A brief history of subjectivity
By Arthur Krystal Thursday, March 12, 2026
“In Love You Rise” by Ibrahim Nasrallah
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Eulogy for a Yenta
Jordy Rosenberg on his new novel, Night Night Fawn
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, March 6, 2026
An American Prophet of the Natural World
Celebrating the magical mundane
By John Kaag Thursday, March 5, 2026
“After Making Love We Hear Footsteps” by Galway Kinnell
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Requiem for a Lost Art
Remembering the stars of theater’s golden age
By Mark N. Grant Tuesday, December 23, 2025
“Absence” by Elizabeth Jennings
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Lisa Jarrett
Tenderness and strength
By Noelani Kirschner Monday, December 22, 2025
It’s a Wonderful (Falling Apart) Life
In the disrepair of our everyday world are suggestions of life’s burdens and consolations
By Ben Slote Friday, December 19, 2025
The Enigma of Ur
Is the music of the future one in which form and structure give way to an aesthetic inspired by the primordial?
By Joseph Horowitz Thursday, December 18, 2025
“Was He Married?” by Stevie Smith
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 16, 2025
“Is it Consensual, Swan Swooning over the Lady?”
By David Lehman Monday, December 15, 2025
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Plus: David Gessner meets Robert Redford, Elizabeth D. Samet talks AI and baseball, Adam Hochschild goes to Lviv, and much more
Plus: David Gessner meets Robert Redford, Elizabeth D. Samet talks AI and baseball, Adam Hochschild goes to Lviv, and much more
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
Who Is Thinking?
The quest to discover the answer to an age-old question
By T. M. Luhrmann Monday, March 2, 2026
‘In the Presence of People No Longer Here’ 
Historians in the Ukrainian city of Lviv are documenting the horrors of the past while living in the shadow of war
By Adam Hochschild Monday, March 2, 2026
First Love, Faded Bloom
Rereading Gone with the Wind on a trip through the South
By Joy Lanzendorfer Monday, March 2, 2026
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
Who Is Thinking?
The quest to discover the answer to an age-old question
By T. M. Luhrmann Monday, March 2, 2026
‘In the Presence of People No Longer Here’
Historians in the Ukrainian city of Lviv are documenting the horrors of the past while living in the shadow of war
By Adam Hochschild Monday, March 2, 2026
First Love, Faded Bloom
Rereading Gone with the Wind on a trip through the South
By Joy Lanzendorfer Monday, March 2, 2026
