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Smarty Pants

Music to Have Revelations To

Music to Have Revelations To

Small Fools on the band’s brand of “cosmic bardcore”

Stephanie Bastek

Lines from the Front

Lines from the Front

Carolyn Forché on a wartime anthology of Ukrainian poetry

Stephanie Bastek

Losing the Lot

Losing the Lot

Henry Grabar on what parking has done to us

Stephanie Bastek

The Pacifist and the Battlefield

The Pacifist and the Battlefield

Chad Williams on W. E. B Du Bois’s reckoning with World War I and Black liberation

Stephanie Bastek

A Home in Chinatown

A Home in Chinatown

Ava Chin on tracing five generations of Chinese-American history

Stephanie Bastek

Listening to the Dead

Listening to the Dead

Alexa Hagerty on how forensic anthropology exhumes crimes against humanity

Stephanie Bastek

That Time of the Month

That Time of the Month

Kate Clancy takes the mystery out of menstruation

Stephanie Bastek

Twenty Years of War

Twenty Years of War

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on the invasion of Iraq and the turmoil that followed in his homeland

Stephanie Bastek

The Art of Doing Nothing Much, Together

The Art of Doing Nothing Much, Together

Sheila Liming on the importance of chillaxing

Stephanie Bastek

Cherry Blossom Bonanza

Cherry Blossom Bonanza

Naoko Abe on how an English eccentric saved Japan’s beloved cherry trees—and spread them around the world

Stephanie Bastek

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Read me a Poem

“Huswifery” by Edward Taylor

“Huswifery” by Edward Taylor

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amanda Holmes

“Keeping Quiet” by Pablo Neruda

“Keeping Quiet” by Pablo Neruda

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amanda Holmes

“The Call” by Charlotte Mew

“The Call” by Charlotte Mew

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amanda Holmes

“The Diameter of the Bomb” by Yehuda Amichai

“The Diameter of the Bomb” by Yehuda Amichai

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amanda Holmes

“Take Only What Is Most Important” by Serhiy Zhadan

“Take Only What Is Most Important” by Serhiy Zhadan

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amanda Holmes

“The Bluebird” by Charles Bukowski

“The Bluebird” by Charles Bukowski

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amanda Holmes

“Seth Compton” by Edgar Lee Masters

“Seth Compton” by Edgar Lee Masters

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amanda Holmes

“A Hand Not Ready for Birds” by Muhammed Ali Chamseddine

“A Hand Not Ready for Birds” by Muhammed Ali Chamseddine

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amanda Holmes

“The Flower-School” by Rabindranath Tagore

“The Flower-School” by Rabindranath Tagore

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amanda Holmes

“Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens

“Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amanda Holmes

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