Instead of a Card: Ten Poems about Getting Older Wrapping Paper

Instead of a Card: Ten Poems about Getting Older Wrapping PaperA greeting that not only gives great pleasure but illuminates our liveslike a message in a bottle.Robert McCrum, writer and editor Ten Poems about Getting Older is a title in the Instead of a Card series, based on the idea that sending a greeting card is a lovely gesture, and sending a booklet of poetry an even more meaningful one. Being old isnt what it used to be. Sixty is the new forty. The world is full of expressions designed to make us feel

Sin and the Scientist from the July 17

Collapsible easels

After high school

Children meet Bragi

Editor-at-Large at The New York Review of Books

A Girl of Distinction

whether one is online shopping

play value

‘Ulysses’ on Trial from the September 26

Leaves of Grass

clubs = fools

The Romance of Charles Chaplin from the October 22