3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (192+ words) June 11, 2026 issue in rain. A blur, like another language isa mix of colorthat runs and spills. I do not look downbut across into tops of giant treeswhere birds come backyear after year with straw in their beaks. Is that permission,…...

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3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (516+ words) June 11, 2026 issue Top: Michael Spyres as Tristan, Ekaterina Gubanova as Brang'ne, and Lise "Davidsen as Isolde in Act One of the Metropolitan Opera's production of Tristan und Isolde, 2026 A New Philosophy of Opera The Appian Way: Adolphe Appia and the…...

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2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (829+ words) Flames rising over the Tehran skyline after Israeli airstrikes hit an oil depot, March 7, 2026 One balmy winter day in 1991, during the first Gulf War, I was sitting by the window in my classroom watching the clear blue sky above Ahvaz,…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (620+ words) March 12, 2026 issue The overcrowded barracks at the Ravensbr'ck concentration camp in northern Germany; drawing by Violette Lecoq, a French nurse and member of the Resistance who was deported there in 1943 and used stolen pens and paper to make secret sketches…...