ESSAYS

Writer on Board

The cruise story from Twain to Shteyngart

By Thomas Swick

Nights at the Opera

Long before he wrote his masterly novels, Stendhal was transformed by the power of music

By Robert Zaretsky

A Terrifying Delight

Following Robert Frost into the depths

By Mark Edmundson

Consummated in Exile

A new recording of Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances conveys the breadth of the 20th-century composer’s life’s journey

By Joseph Horowitz
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LISTS

Skeletons in the Closet

Six literary haunted houses to visit this October

By Amanda Parrish Morgan

Turning Leaves and Turning Pages

By Our Editors

The Case for Empathy

Walk a mile in someone else’s words

By Richard Wertime

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Our favorite epistolary novels

By Our Editors
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POETRY

The Art of Falling

The force of gravity in the lyrics of Andrew Motion

By Langdon Hammer

From: “Gravity Archives”

By Andrew Motion

Three Poems

By Ange Mlinko

Florida Baroque

The tropical verse of Ange Mlinko

By Langdon Hammer
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