In this week’s poem, John Paul Caponigro’s “Looking at My Landscape,” the speaker describes the experience of standing at a window and seeing the land through his own reflection. I love this poem’s ...

Then a new minister expressed fondness for the Russian composer, igniting a furor. By Andrew Higgins and Jenny Gross In the West African nation of Niger, killings by insurgents have surged since ...

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