The Affair Rekindled

Remembering the plight of Dreyfus and the effect it had on a young Marcel Proust

Robert Zaretsky

The Disappearing Modernists

Where did it all go wrong for so much music of the 20th century?

Mark N. Grant

Our Remedy

Quack Covid cures and New Age elixirs are just a 21st-century spin on 19th-century patent medicines

Colin Dickey

Once Upon Another Fraught Time …

The power of Yiddish children’s literature

David Stromberg

Skeletons in the Closet

Six literary haunted houses to visit this October

Amanda Parrish Morgan

Turning Leaves and Turning Pages

Our Editors

The Case for Empathy

Walk a mile in someone else's words

Richard Wertime

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Our favorite epistolary novels

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“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver

Amanda Holmes

“The Taxi” by Amy Lowell

Amanda Holmes

“Work Is My Secret Lover” by Grace Cavalieri

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“I, Lover” by Elsa Gidlow

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amanda Holmes