Sven Birkerts 12/14/21 Sven Birkerts 12/14/21

Exposures

Looking at old photographs from the time of my parents’ youth, I think how complicated such looking is.

Sam Cha 12/14/21 Sam Cha 12/14/21

Lloyd Schwartz's “Who's on First?”

Lloyd Schwartz is, by any measure, a potent force in American letters.

John J. Clayton 12/14/21 John J. Clayton 12/14/21

A lesson from my mother: stop fighting the loss.

Julia Fiedorczuk 12/14/21 Julia Fiedorczuk 12/14/21

I think what we witness on the Polish-Belorussian border is a war — a strange, new kind of war with new forms of violence.

Dan Hunter 12/14/21 Dan Hunter 12/14/21

We need to bring artificial intelligence out of the corporate shadows and into the light.

Woody Lewis 12/14/21 Woody Lewis 12/14/21

He has never wavered from his objective: attaining the power to disrupt our democracy.

Julia Lieblich 12/14/21 Julia Lieblich 12/14/21

Was it wrong to single out one boy for care in a country full of disabled children?

Kai Maristed 12/14/21 Kai Maristed 12/14/21

Paris has suddenly woken up, after a couple of years of shuttered R&R.

Mark Pawlak 12/14/21 Mark Pawlak 12/14/21

Recent events have made me reflect on the nature of political poetry that is inaccurately designated as “of its time.”

Kate Tsurkan 12/14/21 Kate Tsurkan 12/14/21

Chernivtsi brought me back to the world of the living.