This wasn’t my idea. When my Atlantic editors, back in the sweet, untroubled summer of 2019, took me out to lunch and suggested that I start doing something regularly on the inside back page of the ...

In merely 20 words, Beatriz Fernandez romanticized her West Kendall neighborhood in a poem. To the west of her Lakes of the Meadows community are “palatial prairies”— the Everglades. To the east, a ...

‘I’d much prefer to be a good bad poet than a bad good poet, if you know what I mean,’ he says. “An ode is a way of getting under the skin of reality,” says James Parker, whose new book, “Get Me ...

The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra turn Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” into a climactic tour de force. Independent of its original 1824 symphonic setting, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” has become an anthem of ...