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"In Flanders Fields"
Remembering red poppies and John McCrae's haunting poem on Memorial Day.
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Extra! Extra! Carl Phillips Wins Pulitzer
TFP revisits our April 2022 conversation with the incomparable Carl Phillips, who last week was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Frank Conroy Spoke Frankly, and He Spoke the Truth
Remembering the great writer and his honesty during Mental Health Awareness Month.
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Why Gitmo Still Matters
A conversation with attorney Thomas Wilner, counsel of record to Guantanamo detainees in two landmark Supreme Court cases, on the miscarriage of justice…
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Jazz Was His Earliest Muse
A conversation with Clint Eastwood about his first love.
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April 2023
Scott Newstok: How to Speak with Shakespeare
"Books speak to us. They call to us across time, and we converse with them by reading them into our lives."
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Are you there? Yes, I’m here.
The word consolation comes from the Latin consolor, to find solace together.
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The War Against the Press
A conversation with the Committee to Protect Journalists' Gulnoza Said on Russia's wrongful arrest of Evan Gershkovich and the alarming increase in the…
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Upon the 55th Anniversary of MLK's Death
One poem, one story, and one conversation.
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March 2023
Jon K. Lauck: Who Stopped the Presses?
The author of “The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest,” on what we lost when we lost our once great newspapers.
How to Prevent World War III
A conversation with military historian Eliot A. Cohen on why we must “arm Ukraine to the teeth,” and why Biden's visit to Kyiv was invaluable.
Douglas McCollam: Zero Hour 2 A.M.
Sometimes it seems the tide of the night is going to carry us where it’s going to carry us, no matter how hard we swim.
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