SPOTLIGHT

A Story for Christmas

By Clellan Coe Wednesday, December 25, 2024

SPOTLIGHT

A Story for Christmas

By Clellan Coe Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Read Me a Poem

“Snow” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Article

Double Exposure

On our first memories

Web Essays

The Diagnostician of Despair

Why Rousseau believed that Enlightenment values would lead us to ruin

Asturias Days

Such as It Is

Read Me a Poem

“Guests” by Celia Thaxter 

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Next Line, Please

“What a Strange Path”

Three new prompts

Smarty Pants Podcast

Kinship and Contradictions

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity

Tuning Up

Verde

Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew

Asturias Days

Cats and Dogs

Read Me a Poem

“Snake” by D. H. Lawrence

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Jason Middlebrook

Tree rings in time

Article

Others

Too many people in the world isn’t the problem—people are the problem

Charles Ives at 150

The Sound of the Picturesque

Charles Ives and the Visual

Charles Ives at 150

Battle Hymns

Charles Ives and the Civil War

Asturias Days

Cancer

Read Me a Poem

“The Bird of Night” by Randall Jarrell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Charles Ives at 150

Anchoring Shards of Memory

We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both
composers mined the past to root themselves in an unstable present

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